Monthly Archives: October 2011

Streptomycin Is First Isolated (October 19, 1943)

After coining the word “antibiotic” for bacteria-killing chemicals derived from micro-organisms, American microbiologist Selman A. Waksman, working with Albert Schatz at Rutgers University, isolated streptomycin?the fourth antibiotic ever discovered. Waksman won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for … Continue reading

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Rutgers Strong Defense: What ‘s Old Is New Again! This day in 1974…

Time for some more history about Rutgers Football from our friend Source over on ScarletNation.com. Today, Source provides us with insight about the strong and stout defense for which Rutgers has come to be known. According to Source: With the … Continue reading

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Rutgers Football History – 138 Years Ago Today in New York

Another post by Source showed up on the ScarletNation.com board today which gave further insight to the way football developed as a game. His post is in two parts, first a brief description about the rules meeting that was held … Continue reading

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A Catholic Approach to “Public Office”

SUMMARY: Without question, the last 30 or so years have been tumultuous on many fronts. People have “run for office” on all levels of government with varying intentions and purposes. Many have done so initially because of a sense of … Continue reading

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St. Augustine of Canterbury School Children Take Part in Ninth Annual Worldwide Children’s Eucharistic Holy Hour

St. Augustine of Canterbury School Contact: Sr. Mary Louise Shulas, M.P.F. Principal 45 Henderson Road Kendall Park, NJ 08824 p. 732.297.6042 f.  732.297.7062 e. srshulas@staugustinenj.org w. http://www.staugustinenj.org/school/ Press Release St. Augustine of Canterbury School Children Take Part in Ninth Annual … Continue reading

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RIP Steve Jobs

This evening, Wednesday, October 5, 2011, at approximately 4:48 PM PDT, Apple announced that Steve Jobs died. He was 56. Steve Jobs was one of the founding principals of Apple. Through this past August, Steve had been CEO of Apple … Continue reading

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Quality Customer Contact

This morning, Saturday, October 1, 2011, I received an e-mail from Barnes & Noble. Normally these are ads touting the latest books available or the chotchke for last minute gifts. While I don’t consider them to be clutter in my Inbox, … Continue reading

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