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Broncos coach Wayne Bennett has decided against naming halfback Allan Langer in his side to play Canberra on Saturday. Langer is due to have a pin removed from his broken thumb today and hopes to be a late inclusion. With prop Shane Webcke out due to a rib injury, Andrew Gee joins the starting side. Carl Webb's calf strain ensures Brad Meyers a starting place.
Ex-Adelaide winger Rod Jensen is having a big week. He signed a new contract last week, was a late inclusion in the side to play the Bulldogs on Sunday and has now been moved into the centres for Saturday's clash with Brisbane.
Second-rower Paul Gallen has pleaded guilty to a high tackle on North Queensland's Michael Luck on Saturday night, but is seeking a downgrading of the charge to allow him to take on the Roosters in round 26. Cronulla have the bye this weekend, but former international Matthew Johns will be rested a further week after a neck injury, sparing him the indignity of playing in first division.
From the unchanged first-grade side to play Melbourne on Friday night, Roy Asotasi, Adam Brideson and Jonathon Thurston are eligible to play in the finals for the Bulldogs' table-topping first-division side.
Hooker Jamie Goddard's knee-ligament injury seems to have ended his career; Chad Randall takes his place for Sunday's game against the Warriors.
Robbie Kearns, Aaron Moule, Robbie Ross and Matt Geyer are all back for Friday night's crucial clash with the Bulldogs. Geyer (collarbone) has been out for six weeks, Kearns (ankle) for seven.
Hooker Danny Buderus is back from a wrist injury for Sunday's trip to Penrith, but there is still no sign of fullback Robbie O'Davis (groin). Bill Peden reverts to lock and Daniel Abraham to the bench.
Clever hooker Paul Dezolt is back in the starting side for Saturday night's game against South Sydney after impressing off the bench in the heavy loss to Cronulla.
The Panthers launched a community initiative last Friday which was pioneered by British league club Bradford. The scheme brings together 22 sporting organisations to encourage children at school, with the Penrith Leagues Club and corporate sponsors contributing $300,000 a year.
With Tongan forward Brent Kite having surgery this week on a fractured cheekbone, Jason Hooper joins the Dragons starting side for Sunday's encounter with Sydney Roosters. Interchange forward Nathan Tutt returns from a broken hand.
The son of former Rabbitohs great John Berne, Michael, is to make his debut on the wing for Souths on Saturday against North Queensland. Skipper Adam Muir is back for his final game before retirement.
Coach Ricky Stuart has made no changes for Sunday's match against St George Illawarra after last weekend's big win over the Warriors. A loss to the Dragons would eliminate the Roosters from the top-four race.
Logan Swann replaces Ali Lauitiiti for Sunday's encounter with Manly, while Vinnie Anderson has been added to the Warriors' bench. Lauitiiti is out for a month with a strained medial ligament.
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(WHITAKER BANK BALLPARK, Lexington, Ky.) The Asheville Tourists scored a run without a hit in the top of the 13th inning and held on to beat the Lexington Legends 4-3 in 13 innings Tuesday night.
Matt Wessinger led off the top of the 13th with a walk. He was sacrificed to second by Matt Argyropoulos, and moved to third on a wild pitch by Legends reliever Cory Hall. Jason Stolz then hit a broken-bat grounder that went off the glove of first baseman Fred Ford for an error as Wessinger crossed the plate with the tie-breaking run.
Asheville took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second on a walk to Francisco Sosa, a stolen base, an infield out and a passed ball.
The Tourists increased their margin to 3-0 in the sixth inning on back-to-back home runs by Rosell Herrera and Tom Murphy.
The Legends rallied to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth inning. Terrance Gore led off with an infield single and stole second as Bubba Starling struck out. Cam Gallagher doubled to left field, scoring Gore. Michael Antonio flied out, but Jin-Ho Shin singled, scoring Gallagher to cut the lead to 3-2. Ford lined a double to right, sending Shin to third. After Ethan Chapman walked, Yowill Espinal's infield single scored Shin to even the score at 3-3.
From the seventh inning through the 12th, Lexington relievers Scott Alexander and Hall allowed only one baserunner. Argyropoulos drew a walk from Alexander in the 10th but was later caught stealing. Hall, who entered the game in the 11th, pitched two perfect innings before Asheville scored in the 13th.
Roberto Padilla (1-1), who entered the game in the bottom of the 10th, picked up the win. He struck out five batters and allowed three hits in three innings. Hall (0-1) took the loss.
Each team has won one game in the series, which concludes Wednesday. Game time is 10:05 a.m.
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The Michigan Medical Genetics Laboratories (MMGL), based in the University of Michigan's Department of Pediatrics, perform sophisticated biochemical and molecular genetics testing. Since genetic diseases affect a significant number of patients admitted to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, the labs use state-of-the-art techniques to support the diagnosis and care of these patients.
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With Stanford the lone team in the top 19 to lose, the top of the rankings had only some relatively minor shuffling Sunday.
That will change next week, when five games feature matchups of ranked teams, including three with both teams ranked between Nos. 5-11.
Call it the first shakedown Saturday of the season.
No. 5 Georgia is at No. 6 South Carolina in a SEC East showdown that gives the winner the inside track — though far from a clear path — to the division title.
Freshman tailbacks Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall and the Bulldogs are on pace to have one of the most prolific offenses in Southeastern Conference history, but the defense and special teams have been shaky. That nearly cost them in a 51-44 victory Saturday against Tennessee.
No. 4 LSU goes to No. 10 Florida, a crossover SEC matchup that should answer a key question in the national championship race: How worried should the Tigers be about their lethargic offense?
In the Big 12, offense shouldn't be a problem when No. 8 West Virginia visits No. 11 Texas.
The Mountaineers were ridiculous in Saturday's 70-63 victory against Baylor. Geno Smith threw for eight touchdowns. For the season, he's completed 83 percent of his passes while grabbing the early lead in the Heisman Trophy race.
No. 2 Oregon is home against No. 23 Washington, which is coming off a 17-13 victory against Stanford.
In the Big Ten, No. 12 Ohio State hosts No. 21 Nebraska.
Add to that No. 9 Notre Dame facing Miami (4-1) in Chicago, and No. 3 Florida State playing at North Carolina State, and there is no doubt the top 10 will look very different next Sunday — with one exception.
Alabama is off, so No. 1 is most likely safe.
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It was only one spot, but Florida State's move to No. 3 gives the Seminoles their best ranking since they were No. 3 in the first week of November 2003.
The Seminoles were a bit flat but effective in a 30-17 victory at South Florida. The biggest challenge for Florida State in the coming weeks will be staying focused enough to dodge the upset.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has only one other ranked team right now, and the Seminoles have already dispatched Clemson. They do have to play at Miami (Oct. 20) and Virginia Tech (Nov. 8), and as always they finish the season against rival Florida of the SEC. The ACC championship game could rematch Florida State with the Hurricanes or Hokies.
Fact is, of all the teams that look like national title contenders right now, Florida State has the most manageable schedule. Can the Seminoles take advantage?
Moving down
Stanford followed up its big win against Southern California by losing to Washington, dropping the Cardinal 10 spots in the poll to No. 18.
So how good are the post-Andrew Luck Cardinal? This is a team that struggled to beat San Jose State, couldn't muster any offense against Washington, but manhandled USC.
Dig deep and the USC game looks like an outlier. Stanford's power running game has sputtered to 3.9 yards per carry as opponents show little respect for new quarterback Josh Nunes and his less-than-reliable receivers.Take away the 202-yard rushing performance against the Trojans, and Stanford is averaging 3.3 yards per carry against San Jose State, Duke and Washington.


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Qualifying School: 'The longest week of the year'
Throughout the season, William McGirt's wife, Sarah, has been by his side for many golf tournaments, offering comfort and a friendly face during his trek around the PGA Tour.
Starting Wednesday at this year's annual job fair for golfers at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif., where McGirt will be one of 173 men playing for their livelihoods in 2012, she'll be 2,000 miles away at their home in Spartanburg, S.C.
"She learned a few years ago why everyone says Q School is not for wives and children," McGirt said with a laugh. "Stuff just happens. You hit boiling points."
SCHEDULE: This week in golf, at a glance
This is McGirt's third trip to the finals of Q School, a six-day, 108-hole grind featuring strings of expletives uttered under the collar, clubs thrown, golf bags slammed and kicked, and plenty of dreams shattered.
Among the soon-to-be-tortured souls are past major champions and other tournament winners who are looking to recapture their best days. Youngsters taking their first shot at joining the PGA Tour pepper the field. So do plenty of players who have been living on professional golf's edge, hoping to secure one more chance to prove they belong on the PGA Tour for good.
Of the players on hand to take on the TPC Stadium Course and Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West, 25 (and ties) will earn playing privileges on Tour for 2012. Others earn exempt or conditional status on the Nationwide Tour, the development circuit for the Tour. In other words, one 3-foot putt could mean the difference between playing 20 events on the PGA Tour or playing 20 on the Nationwide Tour. Or perhaps only 10 on the Nationwide Tour.
"We as players know what's on the line," said McGirt, a golfer trapped in a nose tackle's body who has tried to qualify for the PGA Tour eight times and has spent years wandering around golf's hinterlands playing mini-tour events and the Nationwide Tour. "You get in your own world, and emotions take over.
"People who don't know what is at stake could get offended."
McGirt, who this week is staying with friends — and fellow competitors — Bobby Gates and Cliff Kresge in a nearby rental house, knows all too well the anguish this qualifying process can tee up. In three consecutive years, at the second stage of qualifying each year, McGirt faced a putt on the final hole that would have sent him to the final stage of Q School. Two of them rimmed out, and the other burned the edge.
"I hit three awesome putts, and they just didn't go in. It can just crush you," said McGirt, 32, who finished 141st on the PGA Tour's money list this year and has only top-150 status on the Tour for next year (which limits his playing prospects). "It's more of a mental test than it is a physical test. Think about it — after two rounds, you still have a full tournament to play. And you always have to stay on top of things and you really have no time to relax.
"More than anything, you have to get your mind right and prepare yourself for the longest week of the year. Going in, you know you're going to hit bad shots, you're going to get bad breaks, and you just have to accept them.
"I've gotten so much better the past couple of years about golf staying at the golf course. I don't take a bad day home with me. You have to let it go or you will just get mentally wiped out. That's going to be huge this week."
So, too, will be good memories. Last year McGirt tied for second at Q School. And his run into, and then during, the FedExCup playoffs provides confidence. The ultimate underdog slipped into the 125th and last spot for the playoffs when Justin Leonard's 13-foot putt for par on the final hole at the Wyndham Championship slid by the hole. In the playoff opener at The Barclays, McGirt made a birdie on the tournament's penultimate hole to move inside the top 100 who advanced. His Cinderella run ended with a tie for 42nd at the Deutsche Bank Championship.
During the time, he became a fan favorite.
"It was the greatest golf experience of my life — to this point," McGirt said. "People didn't know who I was, but after the articles were written before, during and after The Barclays, it was unbelievable. It was so weird. I signed 300 autographs one day. I've never had people yelling my name before. I was sitting up on the balcony eating lunch with Sarah (at the Deutsche) and kids would walk by and yell up at me.
"That's what can happen on the PGA Tour. That's why we play this week."
Q School by the numbers
Number of major winners in the field —David Duval, former world No. 1 (2001 Open Championship); Rich Beem (2002 PGA Championship); Lee Janzen 1993, 1997 U.S. Open); Shaun Micheel (2003 PGA Championship).
Number of players who went through all three stages to get to the finals — Gator "Richard" Todd, Glenn Northcutt, Wes Roach, Erik Flores, Jess Schutte, Travis Wadkins and Paul Haley. There were 13 pre-qualifier tournaments, 13 first-stage events and six second-stage events.
Number of players (and ties) who will earn PGA Tour cards for 2012. The next nearest number to 50 will earn exempt status for the Nationwide Tour in 2012. The remaining players will receive conditional status on the Nationwide Tour.
Number of yards awaiting the players — 7,300 of them at the TPC Stadium Course and 7,204 at the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West in LA Quinta, Calif. The courses feature rolling fairways, undulating greens and deep bunkers. And railroad ties and plenty of water hazards. Two of the most distinct features include a 20-foot cavernous bunker to the left of the 16th green on the TPC Stadium Course and the world famous island green on the 17th hole that follows.
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Rangers caught the dingo and put it down with lethal injection.
Georgina stepped in between the dingo and her baby sister just before their mother was able to scare the dingo away.
At the time, the dingo was semi-domesticated and is believed to be the common ancestor of all breeds today.
Although it is rare, dingo attacks on humans have been known to occur.
Primitive man brought the dingo to Australia around 15,000 years ago.
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In that garden I also saw the wild Australian dog—the dingo.
Fortunately water was close to hand, that is to say three miles away, in a creek since named "dingo Creek."
You only shot once at the dingo—there are two chambers empty in this revolver.
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1789, Native Australian name, from Dharruk (language formerly spoken in the area of Sydney) /din-go/ "tame dog," though the English used it to describe wild Australian dogs. Bushmen continue to call the animal by the Dharruk term /warrigal/ "wild dog."
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British actress Emily Mortimer, who plays a rebellious producer in the series about a cable news show, explained that she has always been interested in politics and flirted with anarchism when she was younger.
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Robert Hughes's account of the life of Goya shows the Australian critic at the height of his powers
Why 2015 is the year finally to decide whether Goya was high-minded or simply fascinated by evil. By James Hall
Germaine, Clive, Barry and Bob came from a 'blessed land at a blessed time', writes Tim Dowling
Observer TV reviews The Honourable Woman; Arena: The Fifty Year Argument; Rebels of Oz; The World's Best Diet – reviewA new spy thriller with Maggie Gyllenhaal went straight for the jugular, while BBC4 soothed the intellect, writes Phil Hogan
Documentary tells how Clive James, Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes, helped spawn Britain's counter-culture
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Australian writer whose TV series The Shock of the New took modern art to a mass audience
Rome: A Cultural, Visual and Personal History by Robert Hughes and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon
From the Observer archive From the Observer archive, 30 April 1967: In celebration of Britain's answer to Mark Rothko
Originally published in the Observer on 30 April 1967: Art critic Robert Hughes is dazzled by John Hoyland's sensuous experiments with the application of colour
Robert Hughes is vigorous and colourful on his favourite artists and topics, but this story of Rome relies too much on ancient history and old myths, writes Frederic Raphael
Mary Beard regrets that an elegant history of Rome is marred by howlers
Jonathan Jones: The world's greatest art critic on the world's greatest city ... I'm only a few chapters in, but already this book feels unmissable
Letters: Germaine Greer is right to say that Robert Hughes is wrong about art, but she is wrong about what is right
Germaine Greer Note to Robert Hughes: Bob, dear, Damien Hirst is just one of many artists you don't getGermaine Greer
Germaine Greer sizes up Damien Hirst's critics
Amid the controversy surrounding the Sotheby's auction, Robert Hughes explains why he has taken a stand against Damien Hirst's 'simple-minded' works, and an art world where prices bear no relation to talent
Outspoken Australian Robert Hughes blames Hirst for making art meaningless
Roofs at night, tattoo-and-shave parlours and exuberant shopgirls - reportage of the everyday dominated early 20th-century American art. The urgency of city life was captured in an explosion of prints, writes Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes: This building couldn't be rationalised, only deferred to.
Robert Hughes's Things I Didn't Know is a reliable memoir of art criticism, says Nicholas Lezard.
Fur teacups, wheelbarrow chairs, lip-shaped sofas ... the fashion, furniture and jewellery created by the Surrealists were useless, unique, decadent and, above all, very sexy, says Robert Hughes.
Barcelona is celebrated as one of Europe's finest cultural treasures, but until recently we knew little about its heritage. Robert Hughes on how a group of architects - in particular Gaudí - created a uniquely Catalan city that combined the myths of a glorious past with progress and innovation.
Rachel Cooke: His groundbreaking work, The Shock of the New, brought him fame and confirmed his position as one of the world's most respected - and feared - critics. On the publication of his first memoir, Robert Hughes talks about art, his Aussie roots and the legal nightmare that followed the car crash that almost killed him.
Robert Hughes's memoir, Things I Didn't Know, allows us to trace the evolution of the art critic's guiding principles, says Andrew Motion.
In his keenness to settle old scores, Robert Hughes forgets to disclose anything very interesting about himself in Things I Didn't Know, says Peter Conrad.
Critical eye: Praise for Robert Hughes's candid memoirs and Michael Burleigh's study of religion and politics, while Andrew Roberts's history gets a mixed reception.
He was old, deaf and virtually broke. But a new exhibition of Goya's last works shows that nothing could dampen his creative spirit, writes Robert Hughes.
The world was in disarray, shattered by the first world war and heading into a second. Out of this chaos came the modernists - a group of utopian designers with thrilling new visions of what the future could hold. But was anyone ready for this brave new world? As a new blockbuster exhibition of modernist art, architecture and design opens at the V&A, we present a G2 special celebrating the Modern movement. To begin, Robert Hughes introduces its key players - and discovers how many of their dreams still survive.


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About the Subject Index—Donald M. Jacobs
When his Index was published, Donald M. Jacobs was Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. His earlier works included Antebellum Black Newspapers: Indices to New York Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Rights of All (1829), The Weekly Advocate (1837), The Colored American (1837-1841), published by Greenwood Press in 1976; Afro-American History: A Bibliography and America's Testing Time 1848-1877 (co-authorship).
Preface to Index to The American Slave
The search for a clearer understanding of the many facets of the American historical experience continues to build in intensity as innovative tools for evaluating and classifying information open new doors and help the research scholar draw new and hopefully more accurate conclusions. This is nowhere more evident than in the area of American social history where many preconceived notions are undergoing reinterpretation. Teachers and scholars are currently focusing more on the country's historical experience from the bottom up rather than merely from the top, where major political figures have usually occupied not only the center state but the whole stage.
American ethnic history, American immigrant history, and American minority history are significant examples of often overlapping areas where such changes in interpretation are occurring. A sense of racial and ethnic solidarity an individuality has been building as research changes our perceptions from the democratic, egalitarianoften assimilationist"melting pot" views of the old "progressive" historians. More and more people are not only asking how they became what they are; they also want to know what they were and what their ancestors were.
Most nineteenth-century racial and ethnic minorities had neither the time nor the inclination to keep a personal written record of their experiences in a new, often alien, even hostile world. For the American slave, purposely and purposefully denied education by laws both written and unwritten, a rich shared oral history served for many years as a facsimile for the personal written record of slavery. During slave times Northern whites and Northern blacks, particularly, began to gain a sense of immediacy regarding slavery from the more than one hundred published slave narratives. These narratives were written and ghost written by runaways more than willing to attack the brutal institution whose harshness was so deeply etched in their recent memories.
After the Civil War, ex-slaves had the opportunity to be more outspoken. However, as the nineteenth century wore on and white society began to lose any real sense of concern for the plight of blacks, little effort was made to build a greater understanding of what slavery must have been like from the slave's perspective. It is small wonder that the major works written by whites during the first half of the twentieth century dealing with the issue of slavery were those by the likes of Ulrich Phillips, who referred to the African blacks brought to the Americas as "the world's premium slaves." And while Phillips could not justify the existence of the institution of slavery on economic grounds, he could, nonetheless, give strong support to the Southern effort to maintain slavery for reasons of social control.
Since the turn of the century blacks had been migrating northward by the tens of thousands. By the 1930s a demographic and ideological revolution had taken place. Many in both the North and the South were shifting their political allegiances from the party of Abraham Lincoln to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt who promised so many of America's Depression-ridden and down-trodden a "new deal." If, in the end, the New Deal economically left much to be desired, it did make a massive effort to put the nation's people back to work with direct help from the government. Not only were the industrial unemployed given government-sponsored jobs, but artists, musicians, and people of many and various intellectual talents were also employed by the Works Progress Administration. Among these, fortunately, were the men and women who travelled throughout the South interviewing thousands of by then elderly ex-slaves before this rich source of first-hand information disappeared forever.
However, until George Rawick began to edit and compile these narratives more than thirty years after the interviewing began, much of the material remained scattered, appearing every so often during the 1950s and 1960s in a much abridged single-volume format. Now that Professor Rawick's forty-one volumes have been published (40 volumes contain narrative materials), the thoughts and attitudes of more than 3,500 slaves from twenty-six states have been brought together, providing a vast array of valuable information to research scholars, teachers, genealogists, as well as people who possess little more than a general interest in what slavery must have been like from the perspective of those who had lived it. Professor Rawick has performed an important service, tracing down materials dealing with the slave experience from those who recalled, mostly from the vantage point of the 1930s, what the "peculiar institution" was like as they were growing up.
True, many of those interviewed had experienced slavery as young children and had memories somewhat dimmed from more than seventy years in freedom and influenced by the experience of the Depression. Nonetheless, this does not diminish the value of these narrative materials. The index for the forty volumes of the slave narratives that appears on the following pages should make the information that is provided within the more than 20,000 pages of interviews more accessible. In many respects this volume is a testament to the efforts of the many graduate students in the Northeastern University history department who, between 1977 and 1981, spent many long hours poring over the thousands of pages of narrative materials to locate information dealing with more than one hundred different subjects. The subjects are as diverse as "African Survivals," "Diet," "Family (Separations)," "Indian Relatives," "Political Participation, Black," and "Slave Surveillance and Patrols." There will be errors, both of omission and commission. The voluminous amount of data within these pages makes the total avoidance of such errors an impossibility. Hopefully they will not negate the usefulness of this volume.
I would like to thank Northeastern University for the help that was provided during the final stages of preparation of this index for publication. Thanks also to the dozen graduate students who labored long and hard for little more reward than the recognition they are receiving here. They are John Corcoran, Irene Di Pietro, Michael Haire, Robert Ladino, Kerry Mangan, Ben Potter, Stephen Smith, Michelle Strauss, John Thomson, Joanna Walsh, Jacqueline Wilkie, and Alicia Williams.
Much deserved praise also goes to a superb typist, Mary Ellen McGinty, who moved rapidly and accurately through the thousands of names and numbers and did all that could have been asked in helping assure the quality of the final product.
Finally, special thanks to the two individuals who were involved in so many phases of the index, especially during the final weeks when so much last minute checking and rechecking had to be done, Steven Fershleiser and Stephen Shore. Steven Fershleiser, especially, played a key role in the project from its conception to its completion.
Hopefully this work will demonstrate that indexing, while surely a mechanical and often tedious exercise, is much more than just that. A good index can and usually does help immeasurably in furthering valuable humanistic research in areas of broad intellectual concern and interest. Clearly the central goal of this index, in fact of all research indexes, is to make knowledge and ideas more easily accessible. Volumes such as this can help oversee the building of a few more intellectual bridges so that the various groups who have helped to write many of the fascinating chapters of the American historical experience can come to better understand the ideologies and perspectives of their own and other groups. In the end, can there be any more humanistic goal than that?
Donald M. Jacobs
May 1981
The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, George P. Rawick, General Editor, with A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave, compiled by Howard E. Potts and Subject Index, from Index to The American Slave, edited by Donald M. Jacobs, assisted by Steven Fershleiser.
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The Michael Kriegler Memorial Lecture Series was created to perpetuate Dr. Michael Kriegler's spirit and enthusiasm for science by establishing programs that educate and motivate students and scientists — just as Dr. Kriegler did throughout this life. To accomplish this, his wife, Jan Tuttleman, established this lecture series to bring together the San Diego biotech community with the University, the faculty and students to build relationships and to share ideas.
As many of you know, Jan was a member of our community, having graduated in our inaugural 2006 MBA class. Jan was a scientist, investor, philanthropist and entrepreneur. More impressively, as loving mother and wife, as social activist and human rights champion, Jan was a role model and inspiration for many in our Rady community, as well as the much broader community.
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As part of our 10th anniversary celebration, please join us for the 2013 Michael Kriegler Memorial Lecture featuring inspirational, thought-provoking speaker, Dr. Razelle Kurzrock as she discusses how genomics represents a powerful, disruptive technology that allows us to customize therapy to each individual patient. This approach may render standard strategies for treating cancer obsolete and hence has the potential to transform cancer care.
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Dr. Kurzrock joined UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in November 2012 as Senior Deputy Center Director for Clinical Science, Director for the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Vice Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology. Dr. Kurzrock is best known for creating the largest and best Phase I clinical trials department in the world while at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. In FY 2012, this department enrolled about 1,200 patients on 128 therapeutic trials. Dr. Kurzrock's unique approach emphasizes using cutting-edge molecular profiling technologies to match patients with novel targeted therapies reflecting a personalized strategy to optimize cancer treatment that is associated with substantially better outcomes. Dr. Kurzrock has overseen hundreds of clinical trials, mainly using novel targeted molecules, seven of which have gone on to FDA approval. She has been the Principal Investigator on numerous grants and contracts totaling over 50 million dollars and has published almost 500 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of elite medical journals.


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Therese Marie Everts, SSND
Professed in 1959
Sister Therese Marie Everts celebrates 50 years as a School Sister of Notre Dame. She ministered as a teacher, administrator, community leader, coordinator, campus minister and spiritual / retreat director.
A meaningful time in my ministry…
In my life as a School Sister of Notre Dame I've had many memorable experiences for which I am deeply grateful – the times of retreat which have helped deepen my relationship with God and have made me sensitive to God's many and varied calls during these fifty years; the gift of good community life which has stretched and challenged me; and the many friends who have walked with me in the difficult and in the happy times are all very meaningful and precious to me. These experiences have prepared and helped me to respond to a call to live and serve in a culture other than my own. During the last the last 22 years I have been living and serving in with our sisters in what was, until 2006 the province of Westphalia, Germany (on January 1, 2006 we finalized our restructuring process and became part of the province of Bavaria.)
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During these years I've worn many different "hats" and sometimes more than one in my work in and for the community and the congregation. Living and working in Europe has broadened my vision as I got to know many sisters and laity in the major area of Europe especially in the areas of Formation, spiritual direction, retreat work and leadership.
Living in another culture has enriched, challenged and taught me many things, not the least of which has been getting to know myself and my own American culture much better.
These years – all part of my faith journey – are a precious part of my life, personally and spiritually. God works in many ways, sometimes strange, but always loving. I look forward to learning God's plan for the future.
What would you like people today to know about the School Sisters of Notre Dame?
I would like people to know that we are happy, energetic and focused women of faith, who no matter how old we are or where we serve, want to live our call as long as we live!
What is your current ministry?
I am presently leader of our restructured Area of 48 sisters in two communities as well as local leader of the larger of these communities, our former Motherhouse, Kloster Brede. We are a community of 44 sisters ranging in age from 97 to 44 years old. Of these sisters 18 are actively serving either within the community or in ministries outside of the "motherhouse."
Sister Therese Marie's missions:
St. Elizabeth, Milwaukee, Wis.
Santa Maria, Chicago, Ill.
Holy Assumption, West Allis, Wis.
St. Joseph, Wauwatosa, Wis.
St. Stephen, Milwaukee, Wis.
Notre Dame of the Lake, Mequon, Wis.
Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Motherhouse Brede, Brakel, Germany
The photo on the right was taken of Sister Therese Marie on the day she professed her first vows.
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For the third year, Mille Lacs County Public Works will be using mowing, rather than spraying chemicals, as the main way to control noxious weeds along public rights of ways.
That decision came out of a discussion between county Soil and Water Conservation District Director Susan Shaw, county Public Works Director Bruce Cochran and the County Board during the board's April 15 monthly workshop.
The plan is to avoid using herbicides as the last resort and then just doing spot spraying. Besides mowing, the county in recent years has been using biological controls led by Shaw.
Shaw gives credit to using a biological control method involving a certain kind of beetle to control the noxious weed purple loosestrife before she began her job in 1999. She called it a successful program for controlling the weed.
Her department has been employing a different beetle to control the weed leafy spurge. That weed is more prominent in the right of way and is more difficult to control, according to Shaw. She explains that the soil gets disturbed more in right of way and anytime that happens, weeds grow better. Beetles do better at controlling certain weeds in pastures, she said.
Shaw noted that leafy spurge is toxic to livestock. Mille Lacs County Commissioner Tim Wilhelm, who is a farmer, called leafy spurge, "public enemy No. 1."
"You don't want to get it in the hay," Shaw agreed. She also noted that there will always be some patches of leafy spurge and that chemicals are no more successful than other means to eradicate it completely.
The point of the workshop discussion was to answer Shaw's question of whether the county should return to a spraying program, like it had prior to the last two years to control noxious weeds. She noted that a lot of people who grow things organically, and a "significant number in the population do not want spraying."


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Through 6/28 – Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day at the Apollo Theatre – $10-$27/ticket – read my post about Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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People, Places & Things
From Realism to Abstraction 2008
de VICTOR PYTKO
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Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
28 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación sep. 07, 2008
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Victor Pytko has exhibited around Michigan and in Colorado, New York and Virginia. Working in both realistic and abstract styles, he has been commissioned for private and corporate clients including the Mass Transit Authority of Genesee County, Ernst & Young in Detroit and Tokai Rika in Nagoya, Japan. A native of upstate New York, Pytko has been influenced by numerous artists including Grandma Moses who lived nearby, mentors Boris Putterman, Leslie Masters and Charles McGee and artists Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg and Milton Avery. The lifelong painter maintains studios at his home in Birmingham and at the Pioneer Building in Detroit.
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Here's an excellent idea that hasn't ever been illustrated as a catastrophic example of scientific hubris in a series of incredibly popular action-horror movies in which people innocently sitting in the john are savagely eaten by giant prehistoric things with big teeth:
A researcher at Kyoto University has announced plans to clone, produce and raise a wooly mammoth of a species that died out more than 5,000 years ago, then do it again, enough times to create a kind of Ice-Age version of Jurassic Park, probably without all the screaming and running.
There's some debate about the project. It may not be a mammoth, for one thing. The clone would come from the carcass of something large and furry dug from the permafrost in Siberia and preserved in a Russian lab for the past decade.
The group of Japanese scientists on the cloning team -- led in the mammoth-making effort by Akira Iritani of Kinki University's School of Biology Oriented Science and Technology -- think the cells are actually from more of a wooly rhinoceros sort of thing.
They'll use techniques demonstrated successfully on live cows and dead mice -- in this case injecting the mammoth/rhino DNA into the egg of an elephant to breed a hybrid mammoth/rhino/elephant/tentacled beast of the apocalypse.
In this context, people may dismiss Godzilla movies as cultural stereotypes that were metaphors for Western conquest and the death of an ancient social order, not specific warnings about the immediate danger of reviving extinct giant monsters.
But if you haven't, you should go watch a Godzilla movie and absorb the specific warnings about the immediate danger of reviving extinct giant monsters who can then eat you and stomp on your house.
If they're anywhere close to my age, Iritani and his coterie of monster-revivers must have heard those warnings and are irresponsibly ignoring them to further a clear scientific and possibly political agenda.
However dangerous his plan, Iritani sounds like a reasonable guy, who says the kinds of things you might hear from a neighbor or colleague you would trust with the key to the door behind which lie ancient horrors.
"The most important thing is to find a good carcass," said Iritani, a leading member of the Creation of Mammoth Association, who doesn't think it's odd that a there is a group called The Creation of Mammoth Association .
The mammoths and any other extinct animals Iritani raises will live on an area of Siberian tundra twice the size of Japan that is uninhabited by humans and whose working name is Pleistocene Park.
The park, which will ultimately be named after the first human victims of the new species, will be created sometime after the first mammoths are born in about five years, Iritani predicted.
Mammoths aren't the only things being cloned, of course.
The first animal to be cloned was a British sheep named Dolly. Spanish scientists have cloned a recently extinct species of mountain goat called a Pyrenean Ibex.
Successful clones have also been made of carp, cats, monkeys, rabbits, deer, wolf, dogs and every Top-40 artist since 1983.
Not all have been inveterate maneaters, though some people object to cloning on less important grounds as well.
Others say mammoths and wooly rhinos were herbivores that wouldn't crush and devour human cities even if they had the chance, and that cloning dinosaurs is too difficult to even worry about as a threat.
To these I say: Shut up.
These people have obviously not paid enough attention to monster movies. Or to the course of scientific research.
Once, Neanderthals were considered to have been savage, subhuman thuggish apes whom our own species avoided completely until the elder race died of loneliness and depression.
Or we slaughtered them all. One or the other.
Turns out there was a lot more fraternization than scientists ever told us was going on, at least while I was paying attention in school, and that human eyesight was either really bad, or beer goggles were invented much earlier than previously thought.
With turnarounds like that in knowledge about things our ancestors slept with, how much more radical could be changes in our understanding of mammoths which, if you remember the rest of your ice age history, humans and Neanderthals slaughtered every chance they got, and which might still be pissed off about it.
Herbivore or not, a pissed off mammoth is not the kind of thing you want to deal with on a pleasant vacation to an uninhabited stretch of Siberia.
All of which has nothing at all to do with IT, unless a rampaging mammoth crashes into your data center and eats your sysadmins. Most of them wouldn't notice, anyway; the sysadmins, I mean. They'd think it was just a really hi-def World of Warcraft moment.
And, except for the mammoths, there's nothing to indicate anything particularly arcane or disastrous is coming to get us from the depths of our past.
Actually it's all kind of cool project. So are other Ice Age investigations like the one that revealed what anthropologists have recently deduced about clothing and our ancient ancestors, until you find out how they know.
It's cool until you think about all the other odd things going on, like the record set last week, when there was snow on the ground in every state of the union except Florida, which it avoided because of the alligators.
And that these hats -- which violate every law of fashion those of us lacking the metrosexual gene have had to memorize and follow by rote since we were teenagers -- are incredibly popular, despite warnings through our post-pubescent lives that wearing them was only permissible while playing the dumb guy in a movie in which Larry the Cable Guy is the smart one.
Or that Ice Age is a musical style young people too hip to use the word "hip" go to underground clubs to hear.
With tablets replacing PCs, the Cloud replacing networks, augmented reality replacing ordinary reality and Steve Jobs leaving Apple for health reasons for the third time, it just seems everything is upside down. The obvious risk in disturbing the past is that it could come back -- in the form of zombie carnivorous mammoths from hell -- rested and ravenous from its time in the permafrost.
Luckily it's pretty clear that zombie mammoth attacks are just a paranoid fantasy caused by hypoglycemia or spending too much time in meetings with people waving uncapped, giant dry-erase markers whose outgas is a little too psychotropic for most serious discussions.
There are no omens of an impending apocalypse or mysterious disaster, no matter what the dead (mammoths) rising from their graves is supposed to portend. You can just relax.
Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld. Follow him on Twitter @KevinFogarty.


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How Much Action Is There Really In An NFL Football Game?Posted by SCRRS Website Committee on January 16th, 2010
Written by: Dave Banks
December 8, 2008
Sunday afternoon was cold and gray, the weekend was drawing to a close and all I wanted to do was veg out in front of the television and enjoy the roaring fire in the fireplace. I asked my son if he'd like to watch a football game with me — I thought it would be a good experience for him — he recently finished his third season of YMCA flag football.
His answer surprised me a little. "No, it's too boring. All they do is stand around." Was this the same kid who wouldn't skip a practice or game even if he was sick?
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Spoiler: During the two hours and 56 minutes the game took to complete, throughout the 60 minutes of regulation time, the ball was in only in play for 12 minutes and 8 seconds.


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Microsoft IT Leverages its Compute Service to Virtualize SharePoint 2010
Published: June 2011
The following content may no longer reflect Microsoft's current position or infrastructure. This content should be viewed as reference documentation only, to inform IT business decisions within your own company or organization.
Microsoft IT piloted the deployment of a virtualized Microsoft SharePoint 2010 environment using the Compute Service, which provides high density compute servers and virtual machines (VMs) to the business. The SharePoint team saw the collaboration as a way to reduce operational costs and complexity, and the Compute Service team viewed it as an opportunity to significantly enhance its infrastructure capabilities. In addition to driving down costs, the partnership helped mature the Compute Service, because it allowed the team to identify and address a business gap by upgrading its physical infrastructure.
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Intended for IT Professionals and IT Managers, this article provides insight into the technical and process-related considerations and benefits associated with deploying a virtualized SharePoint 2010 environment using the Compute Service.
Microsoft IT (MSIT) manages one of the largest implementations of Microsoft SharePoint® in the world. MSIT SharePoint farms serve North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC). The implementation hosts over 36 terabytes of content in 250,000 site collections. SharePoint provides the foundation of most collaboration at Microsoft.
The MSIT Compute Service fulfills high computing needs by allocating, deploying and managing high density compute servers and Virtual Machines (VMs) to the business. As part of the MSIT commitment to virtualize 50% of its infrastructure by July 2012, the Compute Service team currently manages over 11,000 VMs and 2,100 VM hosts within Microsoft IT-managed data centers.
Because SharePoint is so crucial in facilitating collaboration at Microsoft, the MSIT SharePoint team takes cautious and measured steps when modifying the service in any way. Service changes are carefully weighed against any potential impact to users, and to the business. The same caution applied when utilizing the Compute Service to introduce virtualization into the SharePoint environment.
Minimizing Impact
To minimize the impact of virtualization activity on users and the critical business applications that rely on SharePoint, the SharePoint and Compute Service teams chose to introduce virtualization on a "pilot in production" server farm. Although the "pilot in production" SharePoint implementation is a dedicated test environment, it serves about 130,000 unique Microsoft users. The farm itself hosts approximately five terabytes of data, in 5,800 site collections and 28,520 sub sites. While not a true production implementation, the server farm provides the significant capacity and usage stresses required to test an enterprise environment.
Meeting Infrastructure Requirements
SharePoint requires a very robust infrastructure. MSIT had to ensure that the Compute Service infrastructure met the minimum requirements to virtualize the SharePoint environment. Virtual machine capabilities are heavily influenced by underlying physical hardware. Prior to the pilot, the SharePoint servers had not been virtualized. This was due to the large number of processors and memory required.
When the SharePoint team began to plan for its transition to a virtualized environment, the Compute Service infrastructure was unable to support it. The SharePoint team provided their server requirements for IIS, Index, and Application servers.
The Compute Service then upgraded their infrastructure, offering a comparable virtual machine configuration, as illustrated in Table 1.
Machine Type
Operating System
NIC Speed
Physical Server
Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33 GHz
(2 processors — 8 cores)
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
per second
Virtual Machine
Intel Xeon L5530 @ 2.4 GHz
(4 cores)
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
per second
Table 1. Comparison of physical server and virtual machine requirements for SharePoint 2010
By significantly enhancing its underlying infrastructure, the Compute Service moved into a position where it could support the significant availability and consistency requirements of the business-critical SharePoint service. By 2010, the Compute Service was ready to host the virtual SharePoint environment, and within a couple of months the "pilot in production" farm was online.
Phased Deployment
The SharePoint virtualization deployment was directly proportional to the customer workload and the number of connections to the server farm. It took place in phases. For every two virtual machines deployed, one physical server was decommissioned. The overall deployment process was similar to a physical server deployment. Once the logical servers were procured, the Compute Service team managed the deployment in phases per the SharePoint team's requirements.
Figure 1. Timeline of phased virtualization deployment
Rolling out Applications
When deploying some of the applications on SharePoint, including PowerPivot for SharePoint, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Office Web Apps, PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint, and Microsoft Visio® 2010, it was initially difficult to gauge the number of users that would access an application at any given time. Resource utilization also needed to be factored in, as the applications tended to use more resources than simply using a web browser to view SharePoint pages.
To mitigate some of the application rollout challenges, MSIT completed these steps:
Isolated lab testing was performed on applications
Applications were deployed to a pre-production environment
Applications were deployed to production virtual machines
Based on CPU, memory, disk, and network performance, the SharePoint team was able to determine whether they needed to add more servers into the rotation, or place the application services on different application servers. For example:
If the CPU, memory were operating at greater than 70%, MSIT would add another server into the rotation.
If MSIT observed network queuing, more servers would be added into the rotation, or servers would be moved around different VM hosts in order to get more network throughput.
If disks were queuing requests, or had low IO per second, MSIT would engage the Shared Storage team to troubleshoot slow disk performance.
As shown in Figure 2, the SharePoint team determined the appropriate and efficient blend of services, where customers were not impacted by underperforming servers or virtual machines.
Figure 2. SharePoint VM Topology
MSIT ensured that all key services were running on at least two VMs, particularly the more intensive services, such as Office Web Apps, Project 2010, and PowerPivot for SharePoint. MSIT followed a best practice of deploying those services either onto separate VM hosts, or onto a host with another service that is not as resource-intensive. The Compute Service was able to accommodate physical redundancy necessities that were provided within the deployment requirements.
Improving Daily Operations and Management
One of the benefits realized from virtualizing SharePoint was simplified daily operations and management. The SharePoint service teams were initially challenged because significant service responsibilities transitioned to the Compute Service team. Traditionally, the SharePoint service teams had controlled and managed ongoing server operations and troubleshooting.
The SharePoint team learned to adapt to a new support and escalation model for their VMs and associated host servers. In the new model, the SharePoint team disassociated itself from server maintenance and troubleshooting. Instead, a separate support team receives automated server health and welfare alerts, which allows for proactive management of incidents related to hosts and VMs.
In parallel with the SharePoint virtualization process, other systems supporting the Compute Service's request management and service management infrastructure were being upgraded to enhance operational efficiency. This introduced some temporary challenges and some minor delays for the SharePoint team. However, this was not surprising, due to a new service engagement being piloted with another team that was itself working through new processes and systems.
The SharePoint team was able to pilot new Compute processes, and to provide meaningful feedback to the service operations team. Ultimately, the Compute team was able to incorporate key changes into its own service management system.
Initial Results
The initial results of the "pilot in production" deployment have been very favorable. Availability has been high, averaging around 99.9%, and the service is stable with an average latency of less than .03 seconds for most page loads. The latencies were consistent, due to the reliability of the Compute Service, as well as the consistency of the deployed virtual machines.
High Availability
The Compute Service provides high availability through Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager live migration support. During VM host maintenance, such as during security patching, live migration support allows the SharePoint service to remain online, subsequently meeting the necessary availability requirements.
Capacity and Management
It is much easier to set up and add capacity to a new VM than it is to procure and install a new server in a data center. Overall hardware and hosting costs are also reduced, as there is an 8:1 physical to VM ratio.
Because the Compute Service manages the physical infrastructure of the hosting environment in its entirety, VM owners don't need to concern themselves about whether they are managing a VM or a physical server.
Cost Savings
While it is still too early in the process to provide actual numbers around cost savings for this specific virtualization effort, the average monthly savings per VM within MSIT data centers is $350 USD. This accounts for 3.89M$ in MSIT monthly cost avoidance at the current virtualization rate of 47.40%. All indications are that the combination of reduced hardware, reduced power consumption, and service management simplification will lower the cost to implement and manage a virtual SharePoint system.
Virtualization is an important strategy for reducing space and power consumption in Microsoft IT data centers, and for ensuring appropriate server utilization. The success of this pilot proved the feasibility of deploying virtualization as part of the SharePoint utility strategy
In addition to the anticipated cost savings realized by the pilot, the partnership enabled maturation of the Compute Service, because it allowed the team to identify a business gap and work to bridge it by upgrading its physical infrastructure.
Because of the successful virtualization of the "pilot in production" server farm, MSIT has begun moving forward with virtualizing additional farms in North America, EMEA and APAC regions.
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