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She seems so much larger than life in the gossip columns: a freshly divorced Hollywood celebrity, starting a new life in New York City, her comings and goings (six-year-old daughter Suri in tow) obsessively chronicled by the paparazzi. On the Broadway marquee her name stands out in huge letters; the crowds waiting outside the stage door after every performance are just as big. Katie Holmes on Broadway — it's news.
Onstage, however, she looks unexpectedly small and unimposing: a pretty, rail-thin actress, dressed in fashionably faded jeans and sneakers, trying to impersonate a mousy, thirtysomething Midwestern homebody in Theresa Rebeck's new comedy Dead Accounts. Four years ago, I thought she made a perfectly acceptable Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. But here the former Mrs. Tom Cruise is overwhelmed by her co-star and lost in a mediocre play.
(MORE: Katie Holmes on Broadway in 2008)
She's hardly the only Hollywood star finding the going tough on Broadway this season. Jessica Chastain works hard as the lovelorn daughter of a rich doctor in turn-of-the-century New York in The Heiress, but succeeds only in reminding theatergoers how much better Cherry Jones was in the same role a decade ago. Debra Winger is forced to recite some of David Mamet's most archly stylized dialogue, playing a jailer engaged in a philosophical debate with her prisoner (Patti LuPone), a former radical activist, in The Anarchist. Scarlett Johansson at least has a more promising role in the upcoming Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — if you can really stand another revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
In Dead Accounts Holmes plays Lorna, the good sister who has stayed in Cincinnati to live with her churchgoing mother (Jayne Houdyshell) and ailing father (offstage suffering from kidney stones). Her brother Jack (Norbert Leo Butz) has arrived unexpectedly from New York City, bringing cartons of his favorite Cincinnati ice cream and some secrets that will be dutifully revealed in the course of two fairly short acts.
Rebeck, a prolific but overrated playwright (Omnium Gatherum, Mauritius, last season's Seminar — as well as TV's behind-the-scenes Broadway drama Smash) is good at coming up with plot hooks and writes superficially plausible dialogue, but typically falls back on clichés and contrivances to make her fairly trite thematic points. Dead Accounts sets up a familiar conflict: between grounded Midwestern values and those of the big bad city, New York. Jack is a hyped-up, fast-talking, foot-jiggling Manhattanite, who gets all woozy about coming home, while flaunting his Armani suit and dropping names of hot New York restaurants. He's got a rich society wife, who is divorcing him and who shows up midway through the play to show off her snobbishness; she complains on the phone about the tacky linoleum floors and Corelle dishes— "so deliberately without taste" — just as her mother-in-law wanders into the room and overhears every word. Awk-ward!
(MORE: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes: A Look Back at a Hollywood Romance)
Little that happens in the play is very convincing. When he comes home, Jack doesn't even say hello to his ailing father (whose kidney stones soon develop into pneumonia — go figure), but the reasons for their rift aren't even hinted at. Jack's old high school friend Phil hangs around the house pining for Lorna; though they've lived in the same town for more than 30 years, he hasn't asked her out since high school. Worst of all, the big secret around which the play revolves — Jack has supposedly embezzled money from the "dead accounts" of the bank he works for — is such a facile MacGuffin that I thought it would turn out to be a red herring, or a figment of his imagination. Alas, it wasn't.
Norbert Leo Butz, a Tony-winning Broadway pro, chews up the scenery as the hyperkinetic Jack, while Holmes is reduced mainly to exasperated reactions — to his thievery, to the news of his divorce, to the eight boxes of pizza he brings home when she only asked for one. Her slender frame and whiny, Valley Girl voice doesn't really convey the angst of a Midwestern woman worried about the mounting years and pounds, and she doesn't fill the stage, even in her big speeches — like a wistful account of planting a tree as a child on Arbor Day.
Her brother, of course, doesn't remember Arbor Day. The question is: After Dead Accounts, who's going to remember Katie Holmes?
Zoglin, TIME's theater critic and a former assistant managing editor, is the author of Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America


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Editing your Audio
This is something a lot more people should do. Seriously.
Tim Park (dokidoki)'s video "Nyo is war" is 1 minute 15 seconds long. The original song (The Game by Motorhead) is a lot longer than that.
Now, even two minutes isn't very long for a video. However, 2+ minutes for a quick joke… too long. This is why the audio is cut down to 1 min 15. It's a 1 min 15 second joke, basically, and Tim knew that.
If only more video makers understood this fact as well.
I've seen plenty of videos in which people write opinions complaining about the length. If you think your song is too long, cut it down. It stops you from getting repetitive and sloppy toward the end of the vid anyway.
OK, now as for what software to use, I've been racking my brains over this one for a while.
Basically, despite there being better programs and better ways of doing this, I wanted this guide to be useful to everyone and hence I've had to find and option that everyone can use. So, for this audio editing guide we will be using the freeware open-source program Audacity.
It's not the most advanced of audio editing software but it's free.
You can actually do exactly the same thing here that you can in many
commercial programs but those... you know... cost money. If you have
one of those fancy programs then hopefully it's fancy enough to have a
nice manual.
Editing with Audacity (hey, that sounds cool)
Right, load up Audacity.
First of all go into File -> Preferences -> File Format and select "Make a copy of the file to edit".
Open up your wav file using File -> Open.
Then select Project -> Import Audio (Ctrl + I) and then select your wav file again.
This will import another copy of your wav file in parallel with the original. For this guide I decided to edit a copy of Yume no Naka e (the Kare Kano end theme) but you can edit whatever you like ^^;;
For my edit, I decided to radically shorten the song by making it only have the first verse and then the last two choruses. In order to do this, I have to single out the last two choruses and make them start instead of the first chorus.
Audacity has very few tools but they are all really useful for this sort of editing. We have the selection tool, which allows you to select an area of the wave by clicking and dragging the left mouse button. Next up is the Envelope tool which is really really useful. With this you can edit the volume of any section of the wave by putting in points and Audacity will do a logarithmic volume increase/decrease between the points. The last tool is the Time Shift tool which we will use to move the second wave around to put it in place.
First thing you will have to do is find the section of the 2nd wave you want to move. When you play in Audacity, both waves are played together and this may cause clipping due to amplification of the 2 waves so you may want to mute one of the waves during playback until later on.
Find the section that you need and then select the envelope tool put in points (1 and 2) to adjust the audio on the second wave so that it looks like this:
[my picture only shows the second wave cause I've already edited the first one, but yours will show both wavs]
What you'll want to do next is use the Time Shift tool and drag the 2nd wave near to the place where you want it to come in. On mine this was the first chorus, which is quite lucky as it means I can really easily synch the audio in place by comparing the different versions of the choruses as follows:
OK, once you think you have the second wave in place, use the envelope tool again until you get something that looks like this:
Now make sure none of the waves are muted and play the section back. With any luck it will be seamless, transparent and sounding great. However, if you are doing something like removing a solo or similar you may not have a visual comparison like I have (as I'm replacing with something that sounds the same). In these circumstances it is best to use the envelope just like in the picture above and then move your 2nd wave around and change the envelope points until it all sounds right. When all is done you should get a final wave like this:
Obviously if you have to do more than one edit then you can import another version of the wave and do the same again. Audacity is nice and fast so this shouldn't take very long at all.
That's all, basically. Make sure that there are no sections overlapping that you don't want and then you can save the whole thing as a wav file in the File menu - you don't need to merge them or anything.
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Enactus receives grant to open downtown store
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
With the help of a grant from the local Pritchett Trust Foundation, Pittsburg State University Enactus students are aiming to better the lives of those in need both here and abroad.
Enactus, a community of student, academic and business leaders, recently received a Pritchett Trust grant in the amount of $10,850, the largest the group has ever received.
"We were absolutely elated to receive that grant," said Sam Bogle, Enactus president. "We cannot even put into words just how appreciative we are of the support from the Pritchett Trust Foundation. This will definitely help us accomplish many of our goals for the year."
One of those goals is the creation of a new store in downtown Pittsburg that will sell products produced by the 10,000 Villages organization. Founded in 1946, 10,000 Villages sells handmade gifts, jewelry and other pieces of art that were produced by artisans in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Product sales help pay for food, education, health care and housing for artisans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed.
Bogle said the goal for the local store is ultimately to provide job opportunities and experience for the local unemployed.
"One of the things we very much want to achieve through Enactus is helping to employ the unemployed," Bogle said. "The store will initially be run by students in our group, which will be great experience for them. Over time, though, we'd love to use the store to provide employment opportunities for people in town who need to gain valuable work experience."
Bogle said the group is still working out the details with the city regarding the store's location and hours of operation.
Suzanne Hurt, Enactus adviser, said the store is one of several projects the group is taking on this year. She said some of the main points of interest include trades and tourism, business and culture and expanding training opportunities.
Hurt said the group will also work with the KVC Health Systems foster care program to provide mentoring opportunities for area youth who need "positive support in their lives."
"We're talking about helping them learn about and develop not only job skills, but life skills," Hurt said. "We want to be a force of good in their lives and help them in any way we can."
She said the support from the Pritchett Trust Foundation for these projects was "as inspiring as it was surprising."
"I'm not sure any of us really expected to receive the full amount we requested," Hurt said. "So when we did, we were just blown away by the support and generosity. It means a lot to know how much people believe in what we're trying to accomplish and how much they step up to support our students."


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the day was an absolute dream!
among the beautiful scenery, delicious food, awesome entertainment (coffey anderson!), and good friends and family...there was the super fun photo booth.
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Police say a motorist is dead after her car struck a man who had stopped beside Florida's Turnpike to rescue a cat.
The Florida Highway Patrol told The Miami Herald that 35-year-old Michael James Schneider of Tequesta was northbound on the turnpike in Broward County when he noticed the cat Monday afternoon. He parked by the roadway and walked back toward the cat.
A Patrol statement says Schneider was hit by a northbound car. Police say the female driver, whose name wasn't released, went off the road with Schneider on the hood before hitting his parked car and a guardrail, tossing him to the shoulder. Police say the motorist was later pronounced dead and Schneider was in critical condition.
Police told The Herald the cat died.
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Striking the Balance
Brave New World of Human Gene Sequencing Finds Porous Policy Guidelines to Its Liking
June 2000
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"If somebody uses this gene . . . after the patent has been issued . . . we'd be entitled not just to damages, but to double and triple damages."
-- William Haseltine, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2000
"There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
-- Jonas Salk, See It Now, April 12, 1955
"Public Policy Minefield"
"If somebody uses this gene in a drug discovery program after the patent has been issued . . . and does it for commercial purposes, they have infringed the patent." Should a company bring a drug to market after infringing a patent, "we'd be entitled not just to damages, but to double and triple damages."--William Haseltine, former AIDS researcher and Chairman and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2000.
Haseltine was talking about CCR5, the gene for the second receptor HIV needs (after docking to the CD4 molecule) to penetrate human cells. The company stumbled upon the CCR5 gene during its mass sequencing of the human genome. They applied for and later received a patent on the gene sequence covering its use as a receptor and potential receptor antagonist. Meanwhile, most of the researchers who actually established CCR5's role in HIV infection were left out in the cold. In fact, if any of them have ideas about developing drugs that target this protein or gene for therapeutic use, they'll have to deal with Haseltine and Human Genome Sciences. Gregg Gonsalves reports.
The case of the CCR5 gene brings up thorny issues in biomedical ethics, intellectual property rights, and patent law. Who owns the human genome? The first gene patents were granted on sequences that code for known human proteins with clear physiological or therapeutic effects. Later, in the early 1990s, the National Institutes of Health, under the leadership of Bernadine Healy, applied for thousands of patents on little snippets of DNA called expressed tag sequences (ESTs) without any knowledge of their function. These patents were withdrawn after an outcry by the scientific community, but industry quickly stepped in and began applying for millions of patents on ESTs. Craig Venter, the NIH researcher who developed EST technology, then entered the private sector, forming Celera Inc., and joined Haseltine and Human Genome Sciences in a now dissolved gene-hunting and database-searching partnership.
The more radical view on gene patents decries any commercialization of the human genome whatsoever, maintaining that genes and their mutations are naturally occurring substances that should not be patented. Jonas Salk, when asked years ago in an interview with Edward R. Murrow about who owned the rights to the polio vaccine, replied, "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" Those who oppose any patents on DNA would extend Dr. Salk's proposition to the human genome.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a few patents on ESTs, but recently has begun to reevaluate the wisdom of its EST-based gene-patenting policy. Recent statements from U.S. Patent Office Director of Biotechnology, John Doll, has indicated that patents on genetic material will need to demonstrate "some substantial, real world utility" before they can be approved. Currently, most EST patents are sitting in limbo.
Unfortunately, information that establishes this "real world utility" may be curiously general. It can result from a database search that simply identifies a gene or gene fragment as part of a larger family of known genes. The National Institutes of Health objects to this drift in U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) policy, saying it doesn't go far enough. Former NIH director Harold Varmus and current National Human Genome Research Institute director Francis Collins recently wrote the Patent Office asking for more stringent standards that would demand elucidation of a gene's specific physiological function before granting a patent.
From TAG's perspective, the NIH's position makes more sense than the USPTO's or that of the DNA sequencing industry. While TAG has its disagreements with the NIH, here we find common ground. Allowing patents on ESTs with only a vague, accompanying theoretical function, based on database findings rather than pathophysiological research, favors companies that have invested their resources in the simply mechanical task of churning out potentially active DNA sequences. This will create monopolies on the human genome that could impede research on AIDS and other diseases, especially the development of new therapies.
We don't need a new Microsoft for the biological software of human genes. We have already heard of researchers foregoing critical experiments on CCR5 inhibition rather than risk conflict with Human Genome Sciences' alleged patent rights. What other havoc are companies like Human Genome Sciences and Celera going to wreak on drug discovery research in the future? If the U.S. Patent Office doesn't change its standards and require established physiologic functions before granting gene patents, Congress should change the relevant patent law or find other ways to protect researchers and small companies from these genetic robber barons. We should reward those who invest their time and resources in the difficult scientific work of figuring out the function of human genes and proteins. And we should protect those who use this knowledge to develop new ways to diagnose, treat and cure disease.
There are additional difficulties in this emerging world of patented genetic information, with fragmented and overlapping intellectual property rights having the greatest potential to stymie drug development efforts. Rather than rush to judgment on gene patenting, the Patent Office, Congress and other relevant institutions need to consider a wide range of issues before crafting regulation and legislation in this area. The stance of those who would ban gene patenting altogether may seem attractive in light of anticipated difficulties in negotiating this public policy minefield, but in the end reflects a flawed utopian view. If incentives for the commercialization of products derived from genetic research are removed, the development of a new generation of treatments, including treatments for HIV, will certainly be slowed. It will be a challenge for policymakers and researchers to strike the proper balance that maximizes incentives for competition in the interest of public health.


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Rand Paul's one-man band
When Rand Paul touches down in Iowa Friday, it will be almost exactly three years to the day after his landslide 2010 Senate primary victory – an unlikely and decisive triumph over the Republican establishment that instantly transformed Paul into a national political phenomenon.
Now, as Paul weighs a 2016 presidential bid, a different kind of challenge confronts him: Can the plain-spoken former Bowling Green ophthalmologist build a campaign to back up his popular appeal?
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For all Paul's success as a media brand and a mobilizer of the conservative grassroots, the Kentucky senator has done relatively little since 2010 to assemble a political machine around his own personality. For now, the Rand Paul project is a high-wire act that works largely without a net.
Paul's political action committee, RAND PAC, has only just now hired a spokesman, sources said: former Michele Bachmann aide Sergio Gor. While Paul has reached out to key figures in the GOP donor community, much of his fundraising still happens over the Internet – though he'll court Silicon Valley moguls at multiple meet-and-greet events later this month in California, according to a top aide.
Advisers acknowledge that Paul's political orbit remains remarkably small for a politician so visible, and so apparently eager to take his act to the next level. As he works the early stages of the 2016 pre-primary circuit, the senator continues to rely on a small band of aides, most of whom have been with him since his days as an underdog Senate candidate. The Paul crew is politically nimble, but also fairly green in national politics– even proudly amateurish.
( PHOTOS: Highlights from Rand Paul's filibuster)
So far, said Paul chief of staff Doug Stafford, the senator's skill as a mass messenger has meant that "a lot of the things that have to be pushed and manufactured happen organically with Rand."
"One of the things that's useful to do is, try to keep [the political operation] as lean as possible," Stafford said. "There's going to be a lot more to it – his political travel, his political conversations."
More than half a dozen operatives in and around Paul's inner circle said that a key priority for Paul in the year ahead will be building out his campaign apparatus. Should he decide to run for president, Paul will need more than a band of true believers who can amp up a message: he'll need lawyers and regional political directors and state-specific spokespeople. He'll need to recruit national-level campaign veterans who are convinced that this Paul can actually land in the White House.
Paul's advisers talk about a 2016 presidential run almost as a fait accompli, and his schedule in Iowa this weekend reflects the near-certainty of a national campaign. Indeed, it looks like a full-blown, pre-caucus campaign swing: coffee with the Iowa Federation of Republican women, the state GOP Lincoln Dinner, breakfast with Johnson County Republicans on Saturday.


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The Phoenix Suns are looking to trade one or more draft picks in the 2014 NBA Draft for a proven star player who can make an immediate impact.The Suns will have as many as four picks in June's draft and are not placing them off limits in potential trades.
"I think one of the things that's important for people to realize is that we may not draft four players even if we have four picks," Ryan McDonough said. "Our preference would probably be to maybe package a few of them. We're obviously all looking for stars and we feel like we can put together a package as good, if not better, than any other team in the league if and when a star becomes available.
"That's kind of generally what we've wanted to do, not only with our draft-pick situation but also with the cap space that we've acquired."
I posted this here because this is where most of the traffic resides although it's somewhat Off-Topic and then again it's not.
Listen this is a squad who's trying to position themselves to make the playoffs. Sarver wants to be able to make money too. This is also the same franchise who lusted Shumpert last year rumored deal of Dudley and a couple second rounders.
This may be our only chance to break the Melo shackles off. They have some pieces and assets we definitely could use. They have a mother load of picks
We could probably dump Carmelo/Amar'e/Shumpert for Jokafor/Dragic/Frye/Gerald Green and picks. We have to try and get this done. This is our notice to change our course. It may very well be our last chance to do so.


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I have a differential equation of the form
$ \frac{d^2 y}{dt^2} + f(t) \frac{dy}{dt} + g(t) y = 0 $
where $f$ and $g$ are known functions of time.
Is there a systematic (or otherwise) way of finding the conserved quantities, if there are any?
I've been trying to google this topic, but haven't had much success yet. Perhaps someone with more mathematical knowledge than myself (i.e. almost everyone) can point me in the right direction. Even phrases to search for would help.


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Monday, February 22, 2010
mac & cheese & broccoli + hot dog = happy girl
We have macaroni & cheese with broccoli (my little girl's favorite!) on one side, hot dog pieces in one dish, orange chunks and blueberries in the other small dish, with some of those everlasting Pooh cookies stuck in the side.
Wanna guess what the one food item she didn't eat was?
Go on, take a guess.
Those *&$%#@! Pooh cookies! I think it's time to find them a new home. If I can't find a teacher at school to take them we'll feed them to some ducks or something. Sheesh.
4 comments:
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Well, I guess it's good that she is happy to eat her veggies and fruits and ignore her cookies right? Hope you can find them a good home!
- February 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
I am very happy she's such a good eater! Broccoli is one of her favorite foods! :) Those darn cookies though! What a waste of $8 that was.
- February 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- Alie said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks Melissa for the info on the Sassy box. I see now what you mean about the size. It is sometimes hard to judge how big cookie cut out sandwiches are. I think I'll be making an Amazon order soon... (I'll be sure to link to the item(s) through your blog.) Oh and my boys would take some of those cookies off your hands if you lived locally. :)
- February 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Oh, Alie, I'd happily send those cookies right over to you! I'm disappointed my kids didn't care for them, and irritated, oh, SO irritated by that HUGE container hogging up my pantry!
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The 4H Rancho Round Up will have a pie-in-the-face booth at the South Franklin County Fair on September 5th-7th. We have some great volunteers that will be there taking pies to the face for a great cause.
Currently our volunteers include, Franklin County Sheriff Anthony Boen, Prairie Township Constable/Officer Scott McKenna, District Judge Paul Efurd, Farm Bureau Insurance Agent Gary Couthren, County Line seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher Gwen Couthren, Charleston first grade teacher Mrs. Milam and Gene Cross of Cross Heating and Air. Make sure you bring your family and friends and have a fantastic time.
They are looking for more volunteers to take pies to the face to help make this fundraising event a success.
If you would like more information or would like to volunteer, please call Rebecca Jones at 479-965-3605. We greatly appreciate your support.


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Expertise: Neurology, Parkinson's Disease
Research Interests: Neuronal Survival and Cell Death; Molecular and Cellular Signals Controlling Neurodegeneration
Dr. Ted Dawson focuses on movement disorders with many advances in neurobiology of disease have stemmed from Dr. Dawson's identification of the mechanisms of neuronal cell death and the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. He pioneered the role of nitric oxide in neuronal injury in stroke and excitotoxicity and elucidated the molecular mechanisms by which nitric oxide and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase kills neurons. His studies of nitric oxide led to major insights into the neurotransmitter functions of this gaseous messenger molecule. He co-discovered the neurotrophic properties of non-immunosuppressant immunophilin ligands. Dr. Dawson's discoveries have led to innovative approaches and enhanced the development of new agents to treat neurologic disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease as well as other neurodegenerative disorders.
Dr. Ted Dawson received his medical degree and Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Utah School of Medicine. He then completed an internship in medicine at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals before going to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for a neurology residency. Next, he came to The Johns Hopkins where he completed a fellowship in neuroscience and senior clinical fellowship in movement disorders.
- Director, Institute for Cell Engineering
- Director, Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center
- Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Neuroscience
- Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Departments / Divisions
- Neurology - Institute for Cell Engineering
- Neuroscience
- Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Centers & Institutes
- M.D., University of Utah School of Medicine - Salt Lake Cty (Utah) (1986)
- Ph.D., Utah State University (Utah) (1986)
Research & Publications
The Dawson lab studies molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration of Parkinson's disease, nitric oxide signaling and neuronal cell death and neuroprotective and neurorestorative strategies in neurodegenerative diseases, stroke and trauma.
Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder and the Dawson lab is studying the genetic basis of PD by investigating the mechanisms by which mutations in familial-linked genes cause PD, with hopes of identifying potential therapeutic targets for developing PD treatments. Current projects include the study of alpha-synuclein, LRRK2, parkin and PINK1.
Nitric oxide is a major player in neuronal cell death and the Dawson team has discovered parthanatos, a caspase-independent programmed cell death pathway involving apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) downstream of NO and its major target poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). The team now is further characterizing that pathway to identify targets of AIF and the roles of other cell death effectors with the hope of identifying new signaling pathways that might be amenable to therapeutic intervention. NO also activates the Ras-cell survival signaling pathway and the team is characterizing novel cell survival genes targeted by this pathway.
Lab Website: Udall Center for Parkinson's Disease Research
Selected PublicationsView all on Pubmed
Andrabi SA, Umanah GK, Chang C, Stevens DA, Karuppagounder SS, Gagné JP, Poirier GG, Dawson VL, Dawson TM. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-dependent energy depletion occurs through inhibition of glycolysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jul 15;111(28):10209-14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1405158111. Epub 2014 Jul 1. PMID: 24987120
Sagal J, Zhan X, Xu J, Tilghman J, Karuppagounder SS, Chen L, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Laterra J, Ying M. Proneural transcription factor atoh1 drives highly efficient differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into dopaminergic neurons. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2014 Aug;3(8):888-98. doi: 10.5966/sctm.2013-0213. Epub 2014 Jun 5. PMID: 24904172
Chen YC, Umanah GK, Dephoure N, Andrabi SA, Gygi SP, Dawson TM, Dawson VL, Rutter J. Msp1/ATAD1 maintains mitochondrial function by facilitating the degradation of mislocalized tail-anchored proteins. EMBO J. 2014 Jul 17;33(14):1548-64. doi: 10.15252/embj.201487943. Epub 2014 May 19. PMID: 24843043 [PubMed - in process]
Karuppagounder SS, Brahmachari S, Lee Y, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Ko HS. The c-Abl inhibitor, nilotinib, protects dopaminergic neurons in a preclinical animal model of Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep. 2014 May 2;4:4874. doi: 10.1038/srep04874. PMID: 24786396 [PubMed - in process]
Chi Z, Byrne ST, Dolinko A, Harraz MM, Kim MS, Umanah G, Zhong J, Chen R, Zhang J, Xu J, Chen L, Pandey A, Dawson TM, Dawson VL. Botch is a γ-glutamyl cyclotransferase that deglycinates and antagonizes Notch. Cell Rep. 2014 May 8;7(3):681-8. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.03.048. Epub 2014 Apr 24. PMID: 24767995
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Videos & Media
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
- Getting To The Root Of Parkinson's Disease
- Parkinson's Disease Researchers See Hope in Leukemia Drug, Doorways to Discovery (November 2014)
- Researchers identify biological process that triggers Parkinson's disease, FOX News (04/10/2014)
- Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Brain Cells, A Promising Path To Better Parkinson's Disease Treatment
- End to stem cell research challenge doesn't calm funding fears for scientists, Baltimore Sun (1/1/2013)
- What Doesn't Kill The Brain Makes It Stronger
- Johns Hopkins Team Explores Paris; Finds A Key To Parkinson's
- Parkinson's Disease: Excess of Special Protein Identified as Key to Symptoms and Possible New Target for Treatment with Widely Used Anti-Cancer Drug
- A Promising Target for Developing Treatments Against Parkinson's Disease
- Stem Cell Research: Forging Ahead
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06.07.07 Fast BreaksPosted by rtmsf on June 7th, 2007
- Yes, you heard correctly. The Hair (aka Quin Snyder) is now coaching in the NBDL for the Austin Toros. No word on whether he's brought out his master motivational techniques yet.
- Clemson's James Mays withdrew his name from the NBA Draft. He is exactly who the withdrawal rule was intended for – we're glad to see it working.
- Shocker! Going to class equals a better GPA for student-athletes?!!? What will the good folks at Georgia think of next?
- According to Justin Young at Rivals, the Big East, led by Syracuse and Villanova, brought in the most talent this year, with seven of the top thirty recruiting classes of 2007. The Pac-10, led by USC and Arizona, is second, enlisting five of the top thirty classes.
- The Orlando Sentinel has a clever take on the winners and losers of the Billy Donovan fiasco.
- Finally, we're taking the Spurs in 5 over Cleveland. The Witnesses will have to wait another couple of years.


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Manchester City will check defender Vincent Kompany after training before deciding whether he can feature at Southampton in Saturday's tea-time kick-off.
Kompany has been sidelined by a calf injury that was expected to keep him out until after next week's FA Cup fifth-round tie with Leeds.
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The ashes of former Florence resident Donald Ray Louis, 73, of Denton, Texas, who died Dec. 7, will be interred at 10 a.m. Friday at Florence cemetery. Services were Dec. 11 in Denton.
He was born Aug. 3, 1939, in Newton to Wilbur Orville and Roberta Jean (Williams) Louis. He was raised on a farm south of Florence.
He received a bachelor's degree from Emporia State University in 1962, a master's degree from West Texas State University in 1976, and a doctorate from North Texas State University in 1984.
He is survived by four sons, Terry and Mike of Denver City, Texas, Mitch of Elk City, Okla., and Mark Louis of Irving, Texas; a sister, Carol Kutz of El Dorado; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
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The desolate neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago where the Bulls play their home games is very quiet these days. Their gleaming new arena, the United Center, is set down there as if on a moonscape. All twelve pre-Christmas home games have been cancelled, because of the labor dispute between the owners and the players, which was initiated by the owners in a lockout described as a struggle between short millionaires and tall millionaires, or between billionaires and millionaires. The National Basketball Association, which would have entered its fifty-second season this fall, seems to have fallen victim to its own dizzying success, one that has seen the player payroll increase by an estimated two thousand five hundred per cent in the last twenty years. The incident that probably triggered the lockout occurred about a year ago, when the Minnesota Timberwolves extended the contract of a gifted young player named Kevin Garnett, paying him a hundred and twenty-six million dollars over seven years. The Timberwolves' general manager, the former Boston Celtic Kevin McHale, completed the deal; unhappy with the direction of the league and his own part in it, he later noted, "We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard."
In Chicago, where for much of the last decade the best basketball team in the country has played, the silence is particularly painful. The last time games were played here, the Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, were contesting for their sixth N.B.A. championship, and playing against a favored team, the Utah Jazz. It was an indelible series, the memory of which serves as this year's only fare—and it is melancholy fare—for basketball junkies everywhere.
Michael Jordan was thirty-five, and arguably the dominant athlete in American sports, as he led Chicago into Salt Lake City. He was nearing the end of his career, and he was, if anything, a more complete player than ever. What his body could no longer accomplish in terms of pure physical ability he could compensate for with his shrewd knowledge of both the game and the opposing players. Nothing was wasted. There was a new quality, almost an iciness, to the way he played now. In 1995, after Jordan returned to basketball from his year-and-a-half-long baseball sabbatical, he spent the summer in Hollywood making the movie "Space Jam," but he demanded that the producers build a basketball court where he could work out every day. Old friends dropping by the Warner lot noticed that he was working particularly hard on a shot that was already a minor part of his repertoire but which he was now making a signature shot––a jumper where he held the ball, faked a move to the basket, and then, at the last minute, when he finally jumped, fell back slightly, giving himself almost perfect separation from the defensive player. Because of his jumping ability and his threat to drive, that shot was virtually unguardable. More, it was a very smart player's concession to the changes in his body wrought by time, and it signified that he was entering a new stage in his career. What professional basketball men were now seeing was something that had been partly masked earlier in his career by his singular physical ability and the artistry of what he did, and that something was a consuming passion not just to excel but to dominate. "He wants to cut your heart out and then show it to you," his former coach Doug Collins said. "He's Hannibal Lecter," Bob Ryan, the Boston Globe's expert basketball writer, said. When a television reporter asked the Bulls' center, Luc Longley, for a one-word description of Jordan, Longley's response was "Predator."
"The athlete you remind me of the most is Jake LaMotta," the Bulls' owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, told Jordan one day, referring to the fearless middleweight fighter of another era, "because the only way they can stop you is to kill you."
"Who's Jake LaMotta?" Jordan answered.
In Utah during last year's N.B.A. finals, Jordan had woken up before Game Five violently ill. It seemed impossible that he would play. (Whether it was altitude sickness or food poisoning no one was ever quite sure.) At about 8 A.M., one of Jordan's bodyguards, fixtures in his entourage, called Chip Schaefer, the team trainer, to say that Jordan had been up all night with flulike symptoms and was seriously ill. Rushing to Jordan's room, Schaefer found him curled up in the fetal position and wrapped in blankets, though the thermostat had been cranked up to its maximum. The greatest player in the world looked like a weak little zombie.
Schaefer immediately hooked Jordan up to an I.V. and tried to get as much fluid into him as possible. He also gave him medication and decided to let him rest as much as he could that morning. Word of Jordan's illness quickly spread among journalists at the Delta Center, where the game was to be played, and the general assumption was that he would not play. One member of the media, though, was not so sure––James Worthy, who, after a brilliant career with the Los Angeles Lakers, was working for the Fox network. Having played with Jordan at North Carolina and against him in the pros, Worthy knew not only how Michael drove himself but, even more important, how he motivated himself. When reports circulated that Michael had a fever of a hundred and two, Worthy told the other Fox reporters that the fever meant nothing. "He'll play," Worthy said. "He'll figure out what he can do, he'll conserve his strength in other areas, and he'll have a big game."
In the locker room before the game, Jordan's teammates were appalled by what they saw. Michael, normally quite dark, was a color somewhere between white and gray, Bill Wennington, the Bulls' backup center, recalled, and his eyes, usually so vital, looked dead.
At first, fans watching at home could not understand how Jordan could play at all. Then they were pulled into the drama of the event, which had by now transcended mere basketball and taken on the nature of an entirely different challenge. Early in the second quarter, Utah led 36–20, but Jordan played at an exceptional level––he scored twenty-one points in the first half—and at halftime his team was down only four points. The Bulls managed to stay close in the second half. With forty-six seconds left in the game, and Utah leading by a point, Jordan was fouled going to the basket. "Look at the body language of Michael Jordan," Marv Albert, the announcer, said. "You have the idea that he has difficulty just standing up." Jordan made the first of two foul shots, which tied the score, and somehow grabbed the loose ball after the missed second shot. Then, with twenty-five seconds left, the Jazz inexplicably left him open, and he hit a three-pointer, which gave Chicago an 88–85 lead and the key to a 90–88 win. He ended up with thirty-eight points, fifteen of them in the last quarter.
Throughout the 1997-98 season, Jordan had wanted to meet Utah in the finals again, in no small part because after the 1997 finals too many people had said that if only Utah had had the home-court advantage the Jazz would have won. He was eager to show that true warriors could win as handily on the road, and he was also eager to show that although Karl Malone was a great player, whose abilities he admired, there was a significant degree of difference in their respective abilities.
Unlike more talented teams, Utah almost never made mental mistakes during a game, and at the Delta Center, home of some of the league's noisiest fans, a game that was at all close could easily turn into a very difficult time for a visitor. In the Western Conference finals, Utah had gone up against the Lakers, a young team led by the immense Shaquille O'Neal, and with considerably more athletic ability, and yet the Jazz swept the Lakers in four games, making them look like a group of befuddled playground all-stars. "Playing them is like the project guys against a team," Nick Van Exel, the Laker point guard, said after the series. "The project guys always want to do the fancy behind-the-back dribbles, the spectacular plays and the dunks, while the Jazz are a bunch of guys doing pick-and-rolls and the little things. They don't get caught up in the officiating, they don't get down on each other, they don't complain. They stand as a team and stay focussed."
Utah was a team, smart and well coached, and its players never seemed surprised late in a game. No team in the league executed its offense, particularly the interplay between John Stockton and Karl Malone, with the discipline of Utah. But that was a potential vulnerability, the Chicago coaches believed, for the Jazz were very predictable. What worked night after night against ordinary teams during the regular season might not work in a prolonged series against great defensive players. The price of discipline might be a gap in creativity—the ability to freelance—when the disciplined offense was momentarily checkmated.
Some of this could be seen in the difference between Jordan and Malone. Each had improved greatly after he entered the league, and each had the ability to carry his team night after night. But Jordan's ability to create shots for himself, and thereby dominate at the end of big games when the defensive pressure on both sides had escalated significantly, was dramatically greater than Malone's. Malone had improved year by year not only as a shooter but as someone who could pass out of the double team. Still, like most big, powerful men, he could not improvise nearly as well as Jordan, and he was very much dependent on teammates like Stockton to create opportunities for him. What the Chicago coaches, and Jordan himself, believed was that the Bulls would be able to limit Karl Malone in the fourth quarter of a tight game but that Utah would never be able to limit Michael Jordan, because of Jordan's far greater creativity.
There was one other thing that the Chicago coaches and Jordan thought about Malone, which gave them extra confidence as they got ready for the final series, and which differed from how most other people in the league perceived Malone. Malone, the Chicago staff believed, had not come into the league as a scorer or a shooter, but he had worked so hard that he was now one of the premier shooters among the league's big men, averaging just under thirty points a game for the last ten years. But deep in his heart, they thought, he did not have the psyche of a shooter like Larry Bird, Reggie Miller, or even Jordan; therefore, it remained something of an alien role. At the end of a big game, they suspected, with the game on the line, that would be a factor.
The Bulls' coach, Phil Jackson, hoped to steal Game One of the championship, in Salt Lake City, because the Jazz had had ten days off and were rusty. But it had taken the Bulls seven exhausting games to beat the Indiana Pacers for the Eastern Conference title, and they came into Game One slow and tired, constantly a step behind in their defensive rotations. Even so, they made up eight points in the fourth quarter to force Utah into overtime before they lost.
The Bulls recovered, however, and stole Game Two, and, with that, the Jazz lost the home-court advantage they had worked so hard for all season. Worse, the series now seemed to be turning out the way the Chicago coaches had wanted it to, with the Bulls' guards limiting Stockton's freedom of movement and isolating Malone, who, on his own, was no longer a dominant presence.
Game Three, in Chicago, went badly for Utah. On defense, the Bulls played a nearly perfect game: they stole the ball, they cut off passing lanes, and their defensive rotations were so quick that Utah's shots almost always seemed desperate—forced up at the last second. It was as if the Chicago players had known on each Jazz possession exactly what Utah was going to try to do. The final score was 96–54, the widest margin in the history of the finals, and Utah's fifty-four points were the lowest total in any N.B.A. game since the introduction of the twenty-four-second clock, in 1954. "This is actually the score?" Jerry Sloan, the Utah coach, said in his post-game press conference, holding up the stat sheet. "I thought it was a hundred and ninety-six. It sure seemed like a hundred and ninety-six."
Game Four was more respectable, with the Bulls winning 86–82. But the Jazz came back in Game Five. Malone, bottled up so long, and the target of considerable criticism in the papers, had a big game, hitting seventeen of twenty-seven shots for thirty-nine points, while Chicago seemed off its game, its concentration slipping. Jackson said later that he thought there had been far too much talk of winning at home, too much talk of champagne and of how to stop a riot in case the Bulls won—and too much debate over whether or not this would be Michael Jordan's last game ever in Chicago in a Bulls uniform.
At this late point in Michael Jordan's career, there were certain people who thought of themselves as Jordanologists, students not only of the game but of the man himself. They believed that they could think like him; that is, they could pick up his immensely sensitive feel for the rhythm and texture of each game, his sense of what his team needed to do at a given moment, and what his role should be—scoring, passing, or playing defense. Would he set an example for his teammates by taking up the defensive level? Would he spend the first quarter largely passing off in order to get them in the game? Over the years, he had come a long way from the young man who, surrounded by lesser teammates, had gone all out for an entire game, trying to do everything by himself. The mature Michael Jordan liked to conserve energy, let opponents use theirs up, and then when the moment was right take over the game.
Now, in Salt Lake City, it was as if he had reverted to the Michael Jordan who had carried that bottom-feeding Chicago team in the early days of his career, the player who effectively let his teammates know they were not to get in his way, because he was going to do it all himself. On this night, he knew that he was going to get little help from Scottie Pippen, who was severely injured—virtually a basketball cripple. Dennis Rodman was a rebounder, not a scorer. Toni Kukoc had played well lately, but he was always problematical. Ron Harper, once an exceptional scorer, had become, late in his career in Chicago, a defensive specialist, and he, too, was sick—apparently from something he had eaten. Luc Longley, the center, was in the midst of a wretched playoff series, seeming out of synch with himself and his teammates. (He played only fourteen minutes of this game, scored no points, and picked up four fouls.) Steve Kerr was a talented outside shooter, but Utah would be able to cover him more closely with Pippen limited.
It was clear from the beginning of the game that Jordan would try to do it all. Pippen was out for much of the first half, and Jordan, with Phil Jackson's assent, rationed his energy on defense; at one point, the assistant coach, Tex Winter, turned to Jackson and said, "Michael's giving defense a lick and promise," and Jackson said, "Well, Tex, he does need a bit of a rest." By all rights, the Jazz should have been able to grind the Bulls down and take a sizable lead, but the Bulls, even with their bench players on the floor, never let Utah break the game open. On offense, Jordan carried the load. He was conserving his energy, playing less defense and doing less rebounding than he normally did, but at the half he had twenty-three points. Utah's lead at the half, 49–45, was not what any Jazz fan would want against such a vulnerable Chicago team.
Later, Jordan said that he had remained confident throughout the game, because Utah did not break it open when it had the chance. Jordan's former teammate B.J. Armstrong, watching at home, thought that Utah was blowing it, leaving the game out there for Michael to steal. Armstrong and Jordan had been friends, but it had often been difficult for Armstrong to play alongside Michael. The game had come so much more easily to Jordan than to anyone else, Armstrong felt, and Michael had often showed his impatience with his more mortal teammates—indeed, at one point a frustrated Armstrong had checked out of the library several books on genius hoping that they would help him learn to play with Michael. One of Jordan's particular strengths, Armstrong believed, was that he had the most acute sense of the tempo and mood of every game of any player he had ever seen. A lot of players and coaches can look at film afterward and point their finger at the exact moment when a game slipped away, but Jordan could tell instantly, even as it was happening. It was, Armstrong thought, as if he were in the game playing and yet sitting there studying it and completely distanced from it. It was a gift that allowed him to monitor and lift his own team at critical moments and to destroy opposing teams when he sensed their special moment of vulnerability.
Now, watching the second half of Game Six, Armstrong had a sense that Michael regarded the game as a potential gift. The Jazz, after all, could have put it away early on by exploiting the obvious Chicago weaknesses. But they hadn't. If they had, Armstrong thought, Michael might have saved his energy for Game Seven. But instead the Jazz were leaving Game Six out there for the taking.
As the fourth quarter opened, the Utah lead was marginal, 66–61; the low score tended to favor the Bulls, for it meant that they had set the tempo and remained in striking distance. Slowly, the Bulls began to come back, until, with under five minutes to play, the score was tied at 77. Jordan was obviously tired, but so was everyone else. Tex Winter was alarmed when Jordan missed several jump shots in a row. "Look, he can't get any elevation," he told Jackson. "His legs are gone."
During a time-out two minutes later, Jackson told Jordan to give up the jump shot and drive. "I know," Jordan said, agreeing. "I'm going to start going to the basket—they haven't got a center in now, so the way is clear."
Once again, it was Michael Jordan time. A twenty-foot jumper by Malone on a feed from Stockton gave Utah an 83–79 lead, but Jordan cut it to 83–81 when he drove to the basket, was fouled by Utah's Bryon Russell, with 2:07 on the clock, and hit a pair of foul shots. Back and forth they went, and when Jordan drove again he was fouled again, this time by Stockton. He hit both free throws, to tie the score at 83, with 59.2 seconds left.
Then Utah brought the ball up court and went into its offense very slowly. Stockton worked the ball in to Malone, and Chicago was quick to double-team him. Malone fed Stockton, on the opposite side of the court, with a beautiful cross-court pass. With Harper rushing back a split second too late, Stockton buried a twenty-four-foot jumper. That gave Utah a three-point lead, 86–83. The clock showed 41.9 seconds left as Chicago called its last time-out. The Utah crowd began to breathe a little easier.
Dick Ebersol, the head of NBC Sports, watched the final minutes in the NBC truck. He had started the game sitting in the stands, next to the N.B.A. commissioner, David Stern, but had become so nervous that he had gone down to the control truck. Ebersol liked Michael Jordan very much, and was well aware that he and his network were the beneficiaries of Jordan's unique appeal. Jordan's presence in the finals was worth eight or nine million viewers to NBC. Ebersol was delighted by the ratings for this series so far—they would end up at 18.7, the highest ever. At this point, though, Ebersol was rooting not for Michael Jordan but for a seventh game, and that meant he was rooting, however involuntarily, for Utah. A seventh game would bring NBC and its parent company, General Electric, an additional ten or twelve million dollars in advertising revenues. Jordan's exploits had brought many benefits to the N.B.A. over the years, but he was such a great player that no N.B.A. final in which he was involved had gone to the ratings and advertising jackpot of a seventh game.
When Stockton gave Utah the three-point lead with 41.9 seconds showing on the clock, Ebersol was thrilled. He was going to get his Game Seven after all. "Well, guys," he told the production people in the truck, turning away from the screens, "we'll be back here on Wednesday, and the home folks"—the G.E. management people—"are going to be very happy."
During the Chicago time-out, Jackson and Jordan talked about what kind of shot he might take, and Jackson reminded him that his legs were tired and it was affecting his jump shot. "I've got my second wind now," Jordan answered. "If you have to go for the jumper, you've got to follow through better," Jackson said. "You haven't been following through." Tex Winter drew up a variation on a basic Chicago play, called Whatthefuck—actually an old New York play, from Jackson's time on the Knicks. It called for the Bulls to clear out on one side, in order to isolate Jordan against Bryon Russell. As it happened, Jordan took the ball out near the back-court line, moved in a leisurely fashion into his attack mode on the right side, and then, with Utah having no chance to double him, drove down the right side and laid the ball up high and soft for the basket. The score was 86–85 Utah, with thirty-seven seconds left. It was a tough basket off a big-time drive.
That gave Utah one wonderful additional possession—a chance either to hit a basket or to use Malone to draw fouls. Stockton came across the half-court line almost casually. He bided his time, letting the clock run down, and finally, with about eleven seconds left on the twenty-four-second clock, he worked the ball to Malone.
Buzz Peterson, Jordan's close friend and college roommate, was watching Game Six with his wife, Jan, at their home, in Boone, North Carolina. In the final minute of the game, Jan turned to him and said, "They're going to lose." But Peterson, who had played with Jordan in countless real games and in practice games when the winning team was the first to reach eleven and Jordan's team was behind 10–8, knew all too well that moments like this were what he lived for: with his team behind, he would predict victory to his teammates and then take over the last part of the game. Peterson told his wife, "Don't be too sure. Michael's got one more good shot at it." Just then Jordan made his driving layup to bring the Bulls within a point. The key play, Peterson felt, was going to come on the next defensive sequence, when Utah came down court with the ball. Peterson was certain that he could track Jordan's thinking: he would know that Utah would go to Malone, hoping for a basket, or, at least, two foul shots. He had seen his friend so often in the past in this same role, encouraged by Dean Smith, the North Carolina coach, to play the defensive rover. Peterson thought that Michael, knowing the likely Utah offense every bit as well as Malone and Stockton, would try to make a move on Malone.
As soon as Malone got the ball, Jordan was there. Sure where the ball was going and how Malone was going to hold it, he sneaked in behind him for the steal. Jordan's poise at this feverish moment was fascinating: as he made his move behind Malone, he had the discipline to extend his body to the right and thus get the perfect angle, so that when he swiped at the ball he would not foul. "Karl never saw me coming," Jordan said afterward. There were 18.9 seconds left on the clock.
The crowd, Jordan remembered, got very quiet. That was, he said later, the moment for him. The moment, he explained, was what all Phil Jackson's Zen Buddhism stuff, as he called it, was about: how to focus and concentrate and be ready for that critical point in a game, so that when it arrived you knew exactly what you wanted to do and how to do it, as if you had already lived through it. When it happened, you were supposed to be in control, use the moment, and not panic and let the moment use you. Jackson liked the analogy of a cat waiting for a mouse, patiently biding its time, until the mouse, utterly unaware, finally came forth.
The play at that instant, Jordan said, seemed to unfold very slowly, and he saw everything with great clarity, as Jackson had wanted him to: the way the Utah defense was setting up, and what his teammates were doing. He knew exactly what he was going to do. "I never doubted myself," Jordan said later. "I never doubted the whole game."
Incredibly, Utah decided not to double-team Jordan. Steve Kerr, in for Harper, was on the wing to Jordan's right, ready to take a pass and score if Stockton left him to double Jordan. Kukoc had to be watched on the left. Rodman, starting out at the top of the foul circle, made a good cut to the basket, and suddenly Bryon Russell was isolated, one on one, with Jordan. Jordan had let the clock run down from about fifteen seconds to about eight. Then Russell made a quick reach for the ball, and Jordan started his drive, moving to his right as if to go to the basket. Russell went for the bait, and suddenly Jordan pulled up. Russell was already sprawling to his left, aided by a light tap on the rear from Jordan as he stopped and squared up and shot. It was a great shot, a clear look at the basket, and his elevation and form were perfect. Normally, Jordan said later, he tended to fade back just as he took his jumper for that extra degree of separation between him and his defender, but, because his previous shots had been falling short, he did not fade away this time––nor did he need to, for Russell, faked to the floor, was desperately trying to regain his position.
Roy Williams, the Kansas coach who had heard about Michael when he was back in Laney High School, in Wilmington, North Carolina, was at his camp for high-school players, in Kansas, and was watching the game in the coaches' locker room. He remembered saying after the steal, as Jordan was bringing the ball up court, that some Utah defender had better run over and double him quickly or it was going to be over. You forced someone else to take the last shot, he thought—you did not allow Michael to go one on one for it. But no one doubled him. What Williams remembered about the final shot was the exquisite quality of Jordan's form, and how long he held his follow-through after releasing the ball; it was something that coaches always taught their players. Watching him now, as he seemed to stay up in the air for an extra moment, defying gravity, Williams thought of it as Michael Jordan's way of willing the ball through the basket.
There is a photograph of that moment, Jordan's last shot, in the magazine ESPN, taken by the photographer Fernando Medina. It is in color and covers two full pages, and it shows Russell struggling to regain position, Jordan at the peak of his jump, the ball high up on its arc and about to descend, and the clock displaying the time remaining in the game—6.6 seconds. What is remarkable is the closeup it offers of so many Utah fans. Though the ball has not yet reached the basket, the game appears over to them. The anguish—the certitude of defeat—is on their faces. In a number of instances their hands are extended as if to stop Jordan and keep the shot from going in. Some of the fans have already put their hands to their faces, as in a moment of grief. There is one exception to this: a young boy on the right, in a Chicago Bulls shirt, whose arms are already in the air in a victory call.
The ball dropped cleanly through. Utah had one more chance, but Stockton missed the last shot and the Bulls won, 87–86. Jordan had carried his team once again. He had scored forty-five points, and he had scored his team's last eight points. The Chicago coaches, it turned out, had been prophetic in their sense of what would happen in the fourth quarters of this series, and which player would be able to create for himself with the game on the line. In the three close games, two of them in Salt Lake City, Jordan played much bigger than Malone—averaging thirteen points in the fourth quarter to Malone's three. Jordan should be remembered, Jerry Sloan said afterward, "as the greatest player who ever played the game." ♦


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One of my "reliable reads" for web-savvy and originality is Rainy Day Genealogy Readings, written by Jennifer from the Bay Area in California. The blog has a strong focus on online research, including newspaper research (her "Extra! Extra! Rethinking Newspaper Research" is a must read), photos online, and particularly "how-to" and "how-to-do-even-better" posts for online tools; I have found the tips about making the most use of Google for research very helpful. And there is also occasional fun and silliness ("Pimp Your FB Status") interspersed with the research reports, transcriptions (particularly "Transcription Tuesday," featuring old Oakland Tribune articles), and tool tips.
Two of Jennifer's most recent posts on specific research problems have been very intriguing: "Topics in Research – Was Iva Mae Insane?" and "Topics in Research – The Veteran Who Never Served."
Jennifer is not a "saturation blogger," but if you are passionate about making the most of the various research resources that are out there, you must definitely check out Rainy Day Genealogy Readings.
This Week
At a3Genealogy, Kathleen Brandt provides some useful information on "Native American Research and Resources" – these are some that I need to look into!
At Life From The Roots, Barbara writes of a special connection she helped to make that has special relevance on Memorial Day in "Sentimental Sunday – Two Soldiers Connect."
There were many wonderful Memorial Day tributes this week; one that touched me in particular was "James Jay Huber 1952-1973" at Betty's Boneyard Genealogy Blog.
The importance of having an accessible copy of all genealogy-related e-mail is addressed by Lorine McGinnis Schulze at Olive Tree Genealogy Blog in "Can You Teach an Old Genealogist new Tricks?" and followed up by Jasia at Creative Gene in "Email, Vulnerable Family Information." Possible solutions are suggested by them and by readers in the comments.
In a meditative vein, Daniel Hubbard at Personal Past Meditations – A Genealogical Blog returns to a favorite theme among genealogists – the reasons we do genealogy – in "Not How-to but Why-do?" And Bart Brenner of Stardust'n'Roots responds and continues the meditation in "Why Do I Do Genealogical Research?"
Fact, faith, time (as in past, present, and future), and genealogy: how they intersect and interact are addressed by Chery Kinnick at Nordic Blue in "History by Fact, or by Faith?"
At Genea-Musings, Randy asks, "What is the Best Place to Leave 'Cousin Bait'?" The results from various word combinations are interesting. I tried an experiment like this a couple of years ago, but will have to check again.
The May issue of Shades of the Departed Magazine is out at Shades of the Departed. It is simply amazing. Again.
Happy First Blogoversary to Hummer at Branching Out Through the Years!
Happy Third Blogoversary to Paula Stuart-Warren at Paula's Genealogical Eclectica!
This week I started following these blogs:
Finding Eliza
Gen Briand
Illinois State Genealogical Society Blog
Friday, June 4, 2010
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6 comments:
Greta, Thank you so much for mentioning my article about Connecting Two Soldiers through my genealogy. It was hard, but also a labor of love.ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed your article; it's one of those times when everything worked and the right connections were made.ReplyDelete
Thank you Greta! I'm so glad you have found the blog helpful. =)ReplyDelete
Thanks Greta for mentioning my blog post on my adopted brother James Jay Huber. I have wanted to write his story for avery long time.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for mentioning a3Genealogy. I'm glad you found it useful. And as always, thanks for reading.ReplyDelete
Jennifer, Betty, Kathleen - you are very welcome! I learn so much from your blogs.ReplyDelete
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