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How Syracuse and Auburn Met in the 1988 Sugar Bowl
Had this game been played eight years later, a lot of football angst could have been avoided.
The games – which were always a big component of college football until overtime was installed in 1996 – and the way potential deadlocks were handled, colored the run-up to the 1988 Sugar Bowl.
Tennessee coach Johnny Majors took a lot of heat and second-guessing on Sept. 26th when he kicked an extra point with 1:20 remaining in the Vols' SEC game with Auburn, evening the score at 20-20, instead of going for the victory with a two-point conversion attempt.
That game haunted the Vols throughout the fall, as a three-way race developed between Auburn, which finished 5-0-1 in the SEC, LSU (5-1) and Tennessee (4-1-1). Had Tennessee gone for the win – and made it – the Vols would have been league champions.
A new power was flexing its muscles in the East where Syracuse, under Coach Dick MacPherson, with an exciting quarterback bearing a similar name, Don McPherson, was running rampant – until the last game of the Orangemen's so far unbeaten year.
It was a remarkable turnaround because Syracuse had gone 5-6 the previous season, but had won 10 straight going into the finale against West Virginia.
This was a heady experience for the Orangemen. It had been 23 years since Syracuse had last played in a major bowl game which was the historic Sugar Bowl of 1965 – and 28 years since its undefeated, untied national championship team of 1959. Now Syracuse was again among the elite, ranked fourth nationally.
The Mountaineers, though, gave the Orangemen almost more than they could handle on Nov. 21, in a game in which the opponents combined for 36 points in the fourth quarter. With seconds remaining, Syracuse scored the last touchdown to place the score at 31-30, West Virginia.
MacPherson had logical reason to settle for an extra point, and the tie: protecting what still would have been an unbeaten season. He opted to take his chances for a one-point victory, chancing a one-point loss.
A successful end-around play on the PAT gave the Orangemen the win, still considered the single greatest football moment in Carrier Dome annals.
Just as thrilled was the Sugar Bowl. When it secured fourth-ranked Syracuse and sixth-ranked SEC champion Auburn, the Sugar Bowl had what it considered a natural match-up and an intriguing bowl game; a North vs. South pairing with an exciting offensive team, Syracuse, against an Auburn squad that played defense with cold efficiency.
A compelling match-up for aficionados, it came at a good time for the Sugar Bowl, which had partnered with USF&G Financial Services to become the corporate sponsor of the annual game. This was not an original concept. The first corporate sponsorship was the Florida Citrus Bowl in 1983. Florida Citrus Council is the name of the business that replaced the longstanding title of the Tangerine Bowl. Sponsorship, which eased the burgeoning expenses of putting on the games, was an idea that soon spilled across the postseason football landscape.
Syracuse in particular had the appearance of a godsend to the Sugar's selection committee. An Eastern team, especially an undefeated Eastern team, had the Sugar Bowl panting. After an extended run of No. 1 games that stretched from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the Sugar Bowl found itself having to fight the battle of holiday pairings with, figuratively, one arm strapped to the small of its back. Each year the bowl had to sit tight while the fiercely competitive Southeastern Conference, the Sugar's "anchor" league, where challengers would routinely cut each other up and eliminate each other from any No. 1 considerations.
Nov. 7 was a bloody Saturday for the Sugar Bowl because before that two SEC teams – Auburn and LSU – were legitimate national contenders, each undefeated but once tied. Florida State manhandled Auburn on that afternoon and Alabama upset LSU that night. The dual setbacks meant the Sugar Bowl would have to wait three weeks, until the Auburn-Alabama game, to find out which SEC team would play in New Orleans.
Auburn earned the right by beating 'Bama, 10-0.
Syracuse still had an outside shot at the national championship.
Don McPherson, runner-up to Notre Dame's Tim Brown in the Heisman Trophy balloting, was the ignition key to the Orange offense, having passed for 2,902 of his team's 4,843 total yards. Overshadowed somewhat in the Orangemen's 11-0-0 1987 was their defense. In the first six games of the season, before noseguard Ted Gregory was injured, Syracuse had the best statistical defense against the run (a 77.5 average) in the country. Gregory missed the last five games and Syracuse's average ballooned to 199 yards in that span.
The 285 yards of total offense averaged against Syracuse compared to the 280 yards averaged against Auburn, the SEC's best defensive unit, one that yielded just 10 points per opponent.
"Syracuse definitely has more to shoot for than we do," Auburn linebacker Aundray Bruce said. "We're here because we won our (conference) championship. What we have to do now is uphold the honor of the SEC."
The talk rankled the Orangemen. "We'd like for the people down South, and the nation, to know that we play good football in the East," said Syracuse free safety Markus Paul. "We haven't gotten any respect this season. As we built our winning streak this year, everybody kept waiting for us to get beat. We didn't. Now we're playing Auburn, a team with a loss and a tie, and we're still an underdog. I just don't like that."
He was fit to be tied.
Recap excerpted from the book "Sugar Bowl Classic: A History" by Marty Mulé, who covered the game and the organization for decades for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.


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We could call part two of the series finale "The Big Reveal," because there are so many special guests popping in the studio it's like Christmas on Crack; don't read any further if you don't want any spoilers (and don't come to the website if you don't want to see great pics)…Carla Collins returns to finally sue Langdon for sexual harassment, Crysta is back with some touching final Viewer Mail (and maybe a couple of crazy conspiracy theories), Bad Ass podcaster Dusty Angel brings back the sin, Sheena Metal from LA Talk Radio brings perspective and laughs and some of our favorite SoCal musicians rock Champagne Studios once again – the very talented Killah Ronh and Erin Kim..the party continues with a lot of hilarious looks back at some of our favorite moments from the past six years; there's also more behind the scenes secrets that we've never discussed and finally the big reveal of the surprise celebrity that makes Langdon scream like never before…the very charming, very funny Jim O'Heir (Jerry) from Parks & Recreation; many, many behind the scenes pics and links to sign up for our newsletter (so you can stay in touch with Langdon and the Crew) are all at the website; enjoy, Nation!
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Irish nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady, from County Cavan, has pleaded not guilty to the assault and battery of a one-year-old baby girl in Boston. The Irish native has been remanded on $500,000 bail after a court hearing in Cambridge.
McCarthy Brady (34) was arrested on Monday at the family's Ash Street home for the assault and battery of Rehma Sabir, the one-year-old child under her care. The child's parents are from Pakistan. Prosecutors believe she will be charged with murder once an autopsy has been completed.
The defendant is married and has several relatives living in the Boston area. She has been working as a nanny for 13 years and comes from a large County Cavan family, one of ten children.
Baby Sabir was brought to Boston Children's Hospital on January 14. She was unresponsive and suffering from subdural and retinal hemorrhaging and cerebral swelling. She died from her injuries.
She had suffered massive brain swelling and fractures to her left arm. According to Boston.com's reports, the alleged assault took place on the child's first birthday.
Read more: Irish nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady arrested after death of baby in Boston
Defense attorney Melinda Thompson said the baby had just "traveled all over the world," the Boston Herald reported. Thompson said the baby Sabir had travelled to London, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and the "shaken baby syndrome" did not occur at the hands of her client, McCarthy Brady.
She told the court that the child was diagnosed with malnutrition when she returned from traveling. Thompson said, "Who knows what could have happened?''
She added "[McCarthy Brady] loved that child...She maintains her innocence. It's a sad case. Maybe there's no blame to go around ... she did nothing wrong."
However, prosecutors say McCarthy Brady has restraining orders out against her. Assistant District Attorney Katharine Folger declined to elaborate on these restraining orders.
In court on Tuesday, Folger said medical examiners had already found evidence of an existing fracture on Sabir's left arm and leg, along with significant signs of prior injuries.
Folger said, "It is very clear the only person who had contact with this child at the time of the injuries [on Jan. 14] was the defendant.''
The arraignment also had the prosecution's version of the events of the day in question. The child woke at 8am and was cared for by her mother and nanny. Her mother left their Ash Street home at 9.30am. The child was then in McCarthy Brady's sole care.
The child napped from 10am to 1.15pm. At 4.42pm on January 14, McCarthy Brady called 911 for medical assistance.
The defence team claims Brady, who has 13-years experience as a nanny, found the baby seizing in her crib and immediately called for assistance.
She has been ordered to surrender her Irish passport and the federal immigration authorities have been notified of her arrest.
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Loyola press release - September 4, 2012
The Montage Fine and Performing Arts 2012-13 season at Loyola University New Orleans kicks off this month. With more than 100 events, the series includes classical and jazz music concerts, opera, theatre and ballet productions and visual arts exhibits.
This year's Montage season celebrates the centennial of Loyola University New Orleans, and the line-up includes some of the world's most distinguished artists, including: the critically-acclaimed Tokyo String Quartet in a special farewell performance; an exclusive concert by Wynton Marsalis, featuring acclaimed saxophonist Victor Goines '84; the return of long-time New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra maestro Philippe Entremont in Beethoven's "Triple Concerto"; the remarkable pianist Rev. Séan Duggan '77 in J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue"; and percussionist and former Loyola student Brian Blade at the 44th annual Loyola Jazz Festival.
Additionally, the series will showcase performances by major student ensembles, including the Loyola Symphony Orchestra, Concert Band and Jazz Band, among others. Multiple faculty groups will also be featured on the season, including the inaugural performance of the new Fr. James Carter, S.J., Faculty String Quartet and the premiere of Loyola's Ignatius Saxophone Quartet.
The Loyola Opera will present two performances of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," and the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will offer a series of plays, as well as "The Money Box," an all-new musical by Ricky Graham, Sean Patterson and Jefferson Turner '01.
Masterclasses this season will include Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, Samuel Ramey, Greer Grimsley '76, the Jerusalem String Quartet, Stephen Hough, Christopher Martin, Jose Franch-Ballester, Roberto Diaz and many others.
The Department of Art and Design will feature the work of visiting artist Mark Dion, a special "Mentors" exhibit of works by distinguished faculty and alumni, and the season-ending, highly popular Graphic Design Senior Show and Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibit.
For tickets and information about these and other events, visit montage.loyno.edu or call 504-865-2074. Free parking is available in the West Road Garage located on West Road and accessible from St. Charles Avenue.
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1st National Voter Registration Day. Do You Remember Your First Time?
In 2008, 6 million Americans didn't vote because they missed a registration deadline or didn't know how to register. In 2012, we want to make sure no one is left out.
On September 25, 2012, volunteers, celebrities, and organizations from all over the country will "hit the streets" for National Voter Registration Day. This single day of coordinated field, technology and media efforts will create pervasive awareness of voter registration opportunities--allowing us to reach tens of thousands of voters or more who we could not reach otherwise.
What It Means
• Volunteers at transportation hubs, retail stores, sporting, and concerts.
• Technology to help eligible voters find registration drives nearby.
• A network of grassroots, local organizations engaged in their own communities.
• Tens of thousands of voters registering to vote online and offline in a single day.
What It Will Accomplish
• Register Voters: A network of a thousand organizations operating on the ground and through social media will register tens of thousands of voters in the field and tens of thousands more online--while also receiving pledges to vote from the already registered.
• Mobilize Volunteers: By engaging nonprofits not usually engaged in voter registration drives and amplifying existing drives through event-based recruitment and cultural outreach, National Voter Registration Day will bring thousands of additional volunteer voter registrars into the field just when we need them most.
• Educate Eligible Voters: Millions of voters need to register and re-register every year. By utilizing new technology and leveraging cultural partners, we'll educate more Americans than ever before, bringing new voters into the fold.
• Change the Conversation: National Voter Registration Day will be an opportunity to put our differences aside and celebrate the rights that unite us as Americans.


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The 2012 Giving Warmth Coat Drive was another success, according to organizers. Almost 2,000 pieces of warm clothing were collected, including coats, stocking caps, mittens, gloves and scarves.
In October, Des Moines Area Community College, KCWI 23, Community Choice Credit Union, Des Moines Heating and Cooling, Iowa Health-Des Moines and Iowa Health-Physicians and Clinics collected warm weather apparel.
The new and slightly used coats, stocking caps, mittens, gloves and scarves were distributed to area shelters and other agencies that work with families in need.
This is the fifth annual Giving Warmth Coat Drive. DMACC's Phi Theta Kappa chapters helped distributed the donated items.
As Iowa's largest two-year college, DMACC offers 153 programs, certificates and transfer degrees, annually serving more than 75,000 credit and noncredit students on six campuses.


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Some thoughts on albums from 2007
Thought I might join in with a few albums that I liked, that were generally overlooked.
Elvis Perkins – Ash Wednesday
What can I say about this album? I remember first listening to the opening track "While You Were Sleeping" and just being completely entrapped in the music. I now wake up everyday to "While You Were Sleeping" and it always provides a great start to the day. The album has a great flow of ups and downs throughout, and is perfect for any mood. I would definitely recommend this album to anyone who likes fuzz-folk, although this is more on the folk side then the fuzz. One sad fact about this album is that it was written after both of Perkins' parents died. His father died of AIDS when Perkins was young, and his mother died in one of the September 11th planes. This definitely shows up on the album, but it's more of a sad overtone then a sad direction that the album takes on. This is album definitely is one of my favorites of the year, and it's a debut album to boot.
The Rakes – Ten New Messages
I can't remember where I heard this, but I remember hearing someone call The Rakes "the real Arctic Monkeys." Well this is their second album, and it's a good one. As the title suggests, it's ten new tracks in that post-punk/art-rock British style that The Rakes are good at. With a nice consistent sound throughout the whole album, it flows really well all the way from "The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect" to "Leave The City And Come Home." Really a decent album. And when you have a track called "When Tom Cruise Cries" how can you go wrong?
Tullycraft – Every Scene Needs A Center
What more could you want from an album? With themes like punks, and goths and Dracula, UFOs all crushed up, put into a big old blender and then doused in pure essence of happiness, I don't know what could go wrong. It's not often that you find such an enjoyable 7+ min. pop song, but Tullycraft did it with Dracula Screams of Tiger Style (Parts One and Two). This is one of the only albums this year that I've listened to twice in a row. One of the happiest bands I know of, yes even happier then I'm From Barcelona, Tullycraft is also one of the funniest. The review at KWUR says something along the lines of "Great music, and witty lyrics that Pitchfork writers wish they could have written." Reason enough to go and listen to Every Scene Needs A Center right away.
Most people haven't heard of White Flight. What they're missing is the solo project of Justin Roelofs, who you may know as a member of the now defunct ban The Anniversary. And let me tell you, it's a terrific album. The album is a complete, beautiful work of art. The best way I can describe it is as a collage of poppy sounds and hooks. Sometimes it's electronic, sometimes acoustic, but it all flows so well together. And over all of this you have some great lyrics and vocals. It really creates this complete experience that just sucks you in for the length of the album. I've heard a rumor that the album was inspired by Roelofs trip to South America where he experimented with a lot of local psychedelics. This would definitely explain quite a bit, as the album is really a strange album. And not everyone will like it because it's so strange. But if you give it a listen, you might come it enjoy it as much as I have.


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Enjoy the sites of Barcelona and visit Camp Nou, Barcelona's famous football stadium and home to the FC Barcelona since 1957 and the Catalan National Team. The Stadium's current capacity is over 99,000 seats, the largest in Spain. It is also the largest stadium in Europe, with a surface of 55,000 square meters (592,015 square feet). It is considered the Mecca for football fans all over the world. Learn about the history of this famous football team as you tour the stadium and museum.
A drive through the city takes you to Barça Stadium where you'll get a behind the scenes tour of the facilities and museum. See the visitors changing rooms, the tunnel onto the pitch, its dugouts, as well as the TV studio and the press room.
The museum displays more than a hundred years of club history including all the major trophies won by the different sports teams, photographs, sports materials from different periods, audiovisual presentations, anecdotes and a wide range of other exhibits and souvenirs that make any visit an emotional experience.
After becoming one of the very few European soccer teams to achieve 3 major cups all together in the year 2009 (King's Cup, Spanish League and the European Champions League), the home of the FC Barcelona is a must-see visit for any sports fan.
A panoramic tour of the city takes you to Montjuic, with a photo stop to capture a memorable picture of Barcelona at your feet.


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20ft Frontier Gooseneck Aluminum Stock Trailer. Mats and side panel inserts included. Brand new used only a few times.$14,500
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FY05 Access to Artistic Excellence (part 1)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support "American Memories/American Dreams," the final year of a three-year initiative (Giving Voice) designed to celebrate American music of the past, present, and future. The initiative will include the creation and presentation of new works by American composers.
American Composers Orchestra, $45,000
To support the Emerging Composers Program, featuring commissioning and performances of new works by early- to mid-career American composers, as well as residency activities. The orchestra will perform world premieres and continue its new music reading sessions.
American Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support the presentation in thematic concert format of U.S. premieres and rarely performed works by established composers, with associated educational activities. Composers will include Emmanuel Chabrier, Nicolai Miaskovsky, Paul von Klenau, and Richard Strauss.
Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, $10,000
To support performances and radio broadcasts of music by C.P.E. Bach. The program, with cellist Anner Bylsma as guest soloist, will be performed on period instruments in Akron, Columbus, at Severance Hall in Cleveland, and as part of the Boston Early Music Festival.
Aspen Music Festival and School, $50,000
To support the American Academy of Conducting, a professional development program for post-conservatory conductors. Under the direction of music director David Zinman and conductor Murry Sidlin, the summer institute will engage participants in a comprehensive conducting training program.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $50,000
To support A King Celebration, a consortium project with Morehouse College in tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, $30,000
To support the creation and presentation of Manzanar: An American Story, a new oratorio written and directed by playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and composed jointly by Naomi Sekiya, David Benoit, and Jean-Pascal Beintus. The 55-minute work for narrators, chorus, soloists, and orchestra explores the progression of American freedom using the Japanese internment camp Manzanar as a touchstone.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, $75,000
To support a concert opera performance of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. The three performances scheduled will be conducted by Music Director-designate James Levine during his debut season with the orchestra.
Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, $25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for voice and orchestra by composer Jennifer Higdon. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass will be used as text for the work, which will be performed in the historic Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2005.
The California Symphony, $12,500
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The year-long residency with composer Kevin Beavers will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work.
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, $40,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. Plans include rehearsals under the direction of resident and guest conductors, professional coaching, master classes by Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) musicians, and scholarship support.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, $85,000
To support a residency with Principal Guest Conductor Pierre Boulez. In celebration of his 80th birthday, the residency will feature special programs to honor his accomplishments as conductor, teacher, and new music advocate.
The Cleveland Orchestra, $100,000
To support Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra Celebrate Stravinsky. The festival will celebrate the 40-year artistic partnership between Pierre Boulez and the orchestra with performances of Stravinsky's The Firebird and other works composed between 1909 and 1962.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival, a consortium project. In 2005, the five-day festival of new music, in partnership with Ohio State University (OSU), will feature the works of composer Olly Wilson and other contemporary African-American composers.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, $40,000
To support performances of works by Hannibal Lokumbe. Plans include a performance of African Portraits performed at the Potter's House Church and Music Has No Walls performed for prison inmates.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $40,000
To support the consortium project Community Arts Partners. Several presenting series and an educational program will be established at the new Max M. Fisher Music Center, in consortium with the University Cultural Center Association.
Elgin Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support Dvorak in America, a festival on the life and music of Antonin Dvorak. Plans include educational activities for area high school students and a concert using slides, musical excerpts, and narration.
Houston Symphony, $20,000
To support the continuation of the Concerto Commissioning Project. Composer Richard Lavenda will create a clarinet concerto that will premiere in May 2005.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, $25,000
To support performances of commissioned works. Plans include the world and West Coast premieres of three works by Robert Aldridge, Donald Crockett, and Joel McNeely.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, $100,000
To support The American Composers Project. Plans include repeat performances of previously commissioned works by Tan Dun and John Adams and the premiere of a new commission by Peter Lieberson.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, $15,000
To support the New Orleans International Composers Competition. Funds are requested for the selection process and the final performance of works by the three composer finalists.
Minnesota Orchestra, $35,000
To support the Composer Institute for emerging American composers. The project will include reading sessions of new orchestral work, advanced instrumental sessions led by Minnesota Orchestra musicians, and advanced training seminars.
National Symphony Orchestra, $40,000
To support Composer Portrait: Brahms, an exploration of orchestral works by Johannes Brahms. Concerts will take place at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support Northern Lights, a winter festival exploring Finland's search for a national identity through the music of Jean Sibelius. Concerts will be performed in Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, Englewood, and Red Bank.
New World Symphony, $50,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. Under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the program will use performances, multidisciplinary coaching, and community outreach activities to prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.
New York Philharmonic, $100,000
To support the American Creations Festival. The orchestra will perform the world premiere of Peter Lieberson's Shotoku Taishi - The World in Flower for orchestra and chorus and works by Christopher Rouse, Elliott Carter, and Stephen Albert at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The project will include discussions with composers, symposia, master classes, and conductors' roundtables.
Oakland East Bay Symphony, $12,500
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. The project will include works by Hector Armienta, Kenji Bunch, Laurence Rosenthal, and Chen Yi.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, $15,000
To support a multi-state tour featuring different concert programs. The repertoire will include premieres of commissioned works by Daniel Schnyder and Robert Aldridge. The orchestra will perform 17 concerts at venues in 10 states.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, $50,000
To support the Late Great Works Festival. This project is an exploration of works composed late in life by composers such as Mahler, Wagner, Berio, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. Concerts will be complemented by discussions and pre- and post-concert events.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, $10,000
To support the presentation of George Frederic Handel's opera Atalanta in San Francisco, Berkeley, Lafayette, and Palo Alto, California. The performances, directed by music director Nicholas McGegan, will be preceded by free concert lectures.
Pittsburgh Symphony, $60,000
To support the Composer of the Year residency activities with composer Jennifer Higdon, including a commission. The composer will participate in residency activities such as master classes, reading sessions for emerging composers, mentoring composition students, and community events.
Post-Classical Ensemble, $10,000
To support the production of DVDs of 1930s films with new performances of film scores by Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland. The two DVDs will consist of Thomson's The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, and Copland's The City.
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, $55,000
To support Music of Our Time, commissions and performances of contemporary American works. The orchestra will premiere works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jake Heggie, and Stephen Prutsman.
San Francisco Symphony, $100,000
To support Gershwin, Bernstein, and Yiddish Theater, a festival exploring the influence of Jewish culture on music in America between 1900 and the 1940s. The San Francisco Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, will perform three different programs at Davies Hall.
San Francisco Symphony (consortium), $25,000
To support the Cleveland-San Francisco Exchange, a consortium project with the Cleveland Orchestra to present each orchestra in the other's home city. Plans include performances by the Cleveland Orchestra in Davies Hall in San Francisco.
Santa Rosa Symphony, $10,000
To support Vienna's Golden Age Festival, featuring the music of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert. The Santa Rosa Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players, under the direction of Jeffrey Kahane, will perform in several venues.
Seattle Symphony, $45,000
To support the New Europe Festival, a project celebrating Central and East European music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Under the direction of Gerard Schwarz, concerts of music by Bartok, Kodaly, Janacek, Dohnanyi, Kurtag, and Lutoslawski will be presented.
Utah Symphony and Opera, $35,000
To support Poets & Passions, a celebration of British poets and composers through music, opera, film, and lectures. Under the direction of Keith Lockhart, the orchestra will perform symphonic works by George Butterworth and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Youth Orchestra of the Americas, $18,000
To support a three-week residency program for emerging young musicians from the Americas. The Youth Orchestra of the Americas will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC.
American Film Institute (consortium), $40,000
To support a consortium project featuring a series of presentations of American social documentaries from the 1930s accompanied by live music and narration. The Post-Classical Ensemble will perform live music.
American Symphony Orchestra League, $150,000
To support services designed to strengthen peer-learning networks, communication, and research within the orchestra field. The project will assist nearly 900 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.
Association of California Symphony Orchestras, $20,000
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.
Cabrillo Music Festival, $10,000
To support a professional development program for conductors. In partnership with the Conductors Guild, the training will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.
Carnegie Hall, $100,000
To support Inventive American Artists, a series of presentations featuring American musicians. The series will include performances by the Kronos Quartet and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with conductor David Robertson, performing educational concerts, a composer workshop, and a week-long professional training seminar for musicians.
Sphinx Organization, $65,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony, a unique ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country. The Sphinx Symphony will perform two concerts at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, each featuring young soloists.
Young Concert Artists, $20,000
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series of recitals and concerti debuts in New York City and Washington, DC. The project will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and will provide career management for emerging classical performers and composers.


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(UNDATED) - The Indiana State Police and numerous local public safety agencies in Brown, Bartholomew, Jennings, and Jefferson Counties will be assisting the Patriot Guard Riders with an official military escort Saturday, August 24.
ISP Sergeant Noel Houze says the procession will be escorting the remains of two Marine Corps veterans who happen to be uncle and nephew.
The uncle, PFC Manley F. Winkley was born in Indianapolis on September 17, 1923 and served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII where he was killed in action on the island of Betio on November 20, 1943 during the Battle of Tarawa.
He was buried in a battlefield cemetery on Betio and from October 29 through November 8, 2012 a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Team found the human remains of at least three individuals on the island of Betio.
On April 2, 2013 the remains of one of those individuals was positively identified as PFC Manley F. Winkley, USMCR.
After nearly 70 years on foreign soil where PFC Winkley gave his life for his country, his remains are being brought back to the United States for burial and full military honors.
PFC Winkley's nephew, Cpl. Lyman Winkley was born in Indianapolis on February 11, 1927. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 11, 1944 and was honorably discharged on May 28, 1947.
His military records from WWII were damaged in the St. Louis Fire so there is no record of where he served or with what company.
Lyman Winkley re-enlisted in the Marine Corps on August 24, 1950 and was in the 1st Marine Division during the Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
He was wounded in Yo-Dong on March 22, 1951 and again on April 25, 1951 in Central Korea.
He received the Korean Service Medal with one bronze service star and the Purple Heart with one gold star. He was honorably discharged on September 4, 1951.
PFC Manley Winkley and Cpl. Lyman Winkley's escort will leave the Bond Mitchell Funeral Home in Nashville, indiana on Saturday, August 24 at 11 a.m. and will travel to the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Madison, arriving at 1 p.m. where both will be interred with full military honors.
Sergeant Houze says the Patriot Guard Riders and Indiana State Police, along with local public safety agencies will be involved in the escort and the public is encouraged to show their support for these two military heroes by lining streets and roadways along the route of travel.
The procession will leave the Bond Mitchell Funeral Home in Nashville, IN at 11 a.m. and the following is the route of travel to Madison:
From the funeral home south on State Road 135 to State Road 46 East on State Road 46 into Columbus South on State Road 7 (State Street) from Columbus through North Vernon to Madison where the procession is expected to arrive at the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery at approximately 1 p.m.
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Newly appointed deputy mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Rifat Turk: "It is our duty to prove that co-existence in peace and equality is not only a dream." (Photo: Tel Aviv)Rifat Turk is used to being the first.
The beloved former soccer star was both the first Israeli Arab to play on Israel's national team, and the first Israeli Arab to represent Israel in the Olympics in Montreal in 1976.
But Turk claims that this month's breakthrough was more thrilling than any of his impressive achievements on the playing field. Turk was named deputy mayor of the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the first Arab citizen to ever hold such a high-ranking post in a primarily Jewish city.
"I'm excited. This is a special day for me. I know that it's a historic moment," Turk said. "It is our duty to prove that co-existence in peace and equality is not only a dream," he told the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council, where he has served as a member since 1998 as a representative of the Meretz Party.
Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai said that he was "proud" to announce Turk's appointment.
"It is not enough to talk about co-existence; we must also act," Huldai said. "Turk is a much admired personality among youth, and he has the power to influence them positively."
Turk's life is a Cinderella story. The son of a Jaffa fisherman, he dropped out of school in eighth grade. At age 16, he was discovered kicking a soccer ball around the city's back alleys, and was brought into the world of professional sports. He quickly became a popular star mid-field player for Hapoel Tel Aviv and a member of the Israeli national team. In 1980 he was named soccer player of the year.
His undeniable talent, constant smile, friendly manner and charm won him legions of Jewish fans. Even today, he is arguably the most recognizable and popular Arab citizen in the country.
After retiring as a player in 1987, Turk spent a decade working as a coach and manager for Jewish and Arab teams across the country. At the same time, he used his hero status in Jaffa to work on what he considers a personal crusade: to keep Jaffa youth away from crime and drugs.
According to Turk, 90 percent of his childhood friends are on the street, on drugs or in prison, and he openly worries that too many of Jaffa's youth are headed in the same direction.
Drawing lessons from his own life, he strongly believes that sports can be an important way to both boost young people's confidence and a framework to keep them heading in a positive direction. His goal has always been to narrow the socio-economic divide between Tel Aviv?s primarily Jewish population and Jaffa?s Arab residents.
Ever the athlete, he used a timely sports metaphor to describe his crusade in 1998, when he was first elected to the Tel Aviv city council.
"It's like the World Cup championship. Once there was a huge gap between the quality of the European countries playing and the Asian and African countries. The Third World countries would lose by huge margins of seven or eight to nothing.
'Now, over the years, they have slowly learned what is going on, and the gaps have gotten smaller and smaller. I want to see the gaps between Tel Aviv and Jaffa narrow in the same way.'
Turk, 47, has three children aged 18, 14, and ten
He was brought into politics by his Jewish neighbor in the mixed Ajami section of Jaffa. Roeh, the head of the Meretz faction in Tel Aviv, worked to convince Turk to enter the political arena.
In his new role he plans to ask for authority in the area of sports and to continue to work to promote disadvantaged youth, and to improve education in Jaffa.


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Christa Sherburne and Kwame Adusei
Meet newly engaged couple Christa Sherburne and Kwame Adusei!
Who knew that after Christa Sherburne chose to go out on a limb and reach out to someone on her friend's social networking page, she would meet Kwame Adusei, the love of her life."To be honest, he was so handsome in his picture that I just couldn't resist!" exclaimed Sherburne. However, the couple was always closer to one another (geographically and emotionally) than they realized when they first met online. "Ironically, Kwame went to college in my hometown [in Monroe], while I was earning my master's degree closer to where he grew up," says Sherburne.
At the time, Adusei was studying political science and pre-law at SUNY Potsdam, while Sherburne was working on her master's degree at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville. On their romantic first date (a movie and ice cream) in Potsdam: "We talked mostly about family, friends, and our goals. We found that, though we came from culturally and geographically diverse backgrounds, we had much in common. Specifically, we had similar upbringings and beliefs. We also bonded over having strong, independent, single mothers." Sherburne knew that Adusei was "the one" the summer after they first met, when he dutifully cared for her when she was sick with pneumonia. "Without my asking, Kwame took me to the hospital, packed up my entire apartment by himself, and then drove me home where he stayed by my side night and day until I recovered. That was also the moment my mom knew he was the one, which was the icing on the cake!" says Sherburne.
After three blissful years, Adusei finally gained the courage to pop the question. On the anniversary of the couple's first date, Adusei woke Sherburne up at 5:45 in the morning to profess his love for her. "My favorite part of the proposal was that, instead of asking the traditional question, 'Will you marry me,' Kwame asked, 'Do you want to marry me?' It was such a simple and subtle thing, but it was really meaningful to me," says Sherburne. Which is why, through tired and teary eyes, she excitedly accepted Adusei's proposal.
The couple plans to tie the knot in the fall of 2014 in the greater Albany area. Sherburne says, "Fall is our favorite time of the year. I love the colors, the weather, and the scent. It's nostalgic for me. It's such a beautiful time for a simple and elegant wedding." At the wedding, the couple will be joined by family and friends from upstate New York, New York City, Vermont, and even overseas.
As if planning a wedding isn't exciting enough, the two have decided to continue their education and build their first home in Dutchess County. While Adusei works on his MBA, trains as a financial advisor at Wells Fargo Advisors, and considers a law degree, Sherburne will be busy with her career as a genetic counselor in Harrison, attending meetings and conferences, and mentoring students. In the future, she says that she hopes to become more involved in academic and advocacy fields of genetic counseling.
With so many exciting endeavors that lie ahead of them, the couple looks forward to a beautiful life together, full of amazing and unforgettable memories. "We have many exciting things ahead of us, and we couldn't be happier to be experiencing them together," says Sherburne.
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Liberty Ross Poses Naked For 'Love' Magazine
Liberty liberates herself as she poses completely nude on the cover of 'Love' magazine. When speaking with the publication, she still refers to Rupert Sanders as her 'husband.' Have they moved on from his Kristen Stewart affair? Continue reading for details!
Liberty Ross serves it on the cover of Love, taking off all her clothes and posing nude for the publication. She's looking sexier than ever!
In the mag, which goes on sale Feb. 4, readers will see Liberty sporting nothing but her birthday suit and an over-sized necklace as the 34-year-old wife of director Rupert Sanders flaunts her picture-perfect nude body against quaint grey backdrop.
When the model was asked questions about her marriage to Rupert, 41, Liberty continually refers to him as her "husband," saying:
"I moved to L.A. with my husband Rupert because I felt it was time for him to have his turn. We both like it there and we were both established in what we did, but it felt like things could only excel for him in film in America. I wanted to have children and change my life in that way too. I'm glad I did it; I don't have any regrets."
UPDATE: Liberty Ross Files For Divorce From Rupert Sanders
Since Rupert's affair with Kristen Stewart, 22, was exposed on July 24, 2012 while she was dating Robert Pattinson, 26, the couple seemed to have put the bitterness behind them for the sake of their children.
As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, Liberty dipped into a skin-tight catsuit while she and Rupert and took their two children, Skyla and Tennyson, trick-or-treating Halloween night last Oct. 31.
Liberty, even back in October, left little to the imagination — and reminded Rupert what he had been missing — in her sexy, skin tight leather catsuit — possibly a Catwoman costume –to match her son Tennyson's Joker costume.
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Bing will soon debut a big search results redesign. Rather than forcing social results into the main organic results, Bing will unveil a three-column design with organic results as the main pane, "entities" in the middle, and social on the right.
"People are using the Web to do things in the real world, and that's a big change from where things were a decade ago," Bing Senior Director Stefan Weitz said in a statement. "And so the 10 blue links that search has been predicated on for the last decade no longer makes sense. Simply put, that's not how you get things done."
Decluttered Organic Results
Bing, recognizing that not all people want to have their search results filled up with social "clutter" will put its focus on simplified, traditional, relevant organic results, rather than jamming social signals into search results. Bing has found that those results aren't that relevant to users, with 75 percent of searches not providing users the right answer.
So Bing will remove "unnecessary links" to core information users want, divorcing most of the noisy social network results from the organic results, in the hopes of providing more relevant results more quickly.
This revamp was foreshadowed by Bing's simpler user interface rolled out just last week, which removed the left sidebar and minimized the top navigation.
The "middle" Snapshot column aims to show users useful information about specific places or topics – specifically, restaurants, hotels, businesses, and movies. It will be filled with such things as events, hours, phone number, maps, restaurant reservations, and reviews, in part aided by partnerships and integration with companies like Yelp, Open Table, and Fansnap.
In Bing's example screenshot, a specific hotel search returns such info as rates, check-in and check-out dates, a map, reviews, and pictures. More generic searches (e.g., "chicago seafood restaurant") might just provide a map in this column because there isn't clear intent.
This is similar to Google's "Sources" feature experiment from November. It will be a more "selective" interactive experience, so certain search queries may not trigger this column.
"Up until now, people would have to visit different sites, read reviews about that hotel, and cobble them all together to form an opinion," Weitz said. "With snapshot, we do the heavy lifting by assembling the most useful information in a way that allows people to quickly consume it and make it valuable." Bing plans to further expand this feature in the future to add places, things, and people.
Social Sidebar
The Sidebar is where all of Bing's social activity will live. Bing will pull in information from social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Quora, LinkedIn, Google+, Skype, and Blogger. It will consist of four features:
- Ask Friends
- Friends Who Might Know
- People Who Know
- Activity
Taking advantage of the Bing-Facebook partnership, with Ask Friends, Bing will allow users to ask their Facebook friends questions from the Bing sidebar related to Bing's search suggestions, such as whether a Facebook friend would agree with Bing's top restaurant recommendation. Questions will appear as notifications on Facebook, and can be answered from within Facebook or by returning to the Bing results.
Insode the Friends Who Might Know area, when you conduct a search, the Bing Sidebar will show searchers a list of friends who might be able to help answer your question or solve your problem.
"So if you query 'Hawaii,' user models in the network look at public information in your profile such as where your friends live or have lived, what they've liked on Facebook, and photos [they have shared] — and turn up a list of people who likely have information relevant to your query," says Sandy Wong, principal development lead for Bing.
In People Who Know, the social Sidebar will show the names of experts, enthusiasts, and influentials who have blogged or tweeted about topics related to a user's search. From the Sidebar, Bing will allow users to click on a person's name to read their blog or follow them on Twitter.
Finally, in Activity, you'll be able to see real-time posts and queries, answer friends' questions, and Like posts. Bing said these activities will show up on Bing as well as Facebook, allowing you to comment from either place. Users will have to be signed into Facebook when on Bing for all this Bing-Facebook integration to work.
The new results will roll out of the "coming weeks". You can sign up here to be notified when it's available. You can also a check out a couple videos of the new search layout in Bing's official announcement.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Mar 2011 22:07 UTC, submitted by JCinSpain
I'm still reeling from the unrivalled epicness and awesomeness that is Sucker Punch in IMAX (just got home - do not miss this film), but now I'm back to boring old reality where we apparently care about pieces of plastic that go beep. So, anywho. The deal between Nokia and Microsoft has many Symbian and Qt developers worry about the future of their platforms. To address these concerns, Purnima Kochikar, vice president of Forum Nokia, has published an open letter describing Nokia's plans for Symbian, Qt, and Java for Series 40 devices. While the letter doesn't deliver any hard dates, the transition phase to Windows Phone 7 is set to 2011/2012.
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The claim is made by Paul Leroux, who works for QNX. He recalls the tale of how, in the early '80s, he came across an IBM XT, with a whopping 10MB hard drive. "The XT in question used MS-DOS, but DOS wasn't the first OS to support a hard drive on a PC," Leroux recalls, "That honor belongs to QNX, which in 1982 introduced support for a 5MB Davong. If that sounds small, you're right: it's just enough to store a single photo from one of today's low-end digital cameras."
QNX also had other firsts. For instance, it was the first realtime operating system to support 286 protected mode. It appears that even back then, QNX was insanely awesome: "Due to amazing forethought, most programs ran in protected mode unmodified," wrote Mitchell Schoenbrun, a QNX veteran, "In fact re-compilation was not even needed. Remember all the recompiles for other OS's to switch between modes? Following a few simple rules, even drivers could run in either mode."
The constraints these guys had to deal with - the first commercial version of QNX ran in 64k of RAM, and supported multitasking. "Amazingly enough, 64K was enough memory to run the OS, a shell, and actually compile programs," Schoenbrun recalls, "I believe it was even possible to do a few background chores at the same time, like printing a file."
Of course, now it's up to teh interwebs to either prove or disprove these claims. I'd love to take them at face-value, but if there's one thing I learned during my time here, it's that absolute claims like this rarely stand; someone else is always first. Something always did something earlier. Come on guys and girls, don't let me down!
By the way, Leroux is dedicating an entire series of posts to the 30 year anniversary of QSSL. It contains gems like these photos of the very first QNX-based computer, or the very first QNX newsletter from 1984.
On a related note, the QNX Software Development Platform 6.5.0 has been released. Yes, I, too, long for the days you could download an installable copy of the operating system for on your desktop without any hassle, with up-to-date software. Those were the days. I think that's something QNX could look at providing, now that they mark their 30 year anniversary.


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The Google Play Store has more than a million apps on it and billions of downloads each month, but it's not the only place to get apps. There are many alternative Android app stores out there that you can use anytime you want. We decided to take a look at what's out there.
Why use another Android app store?
There are a number of reasons that you might venture beyond Google Play. Most of the alternative Android app markets out there offer something to set themselves apart. Here's a quick rundown of the main incentives:
- Free apps and promotions: Many app stores feature a free app of the day, a discounted premium app, or some other money-saving offer, making discovering new and useful apps simple.
- App recommendations: Similarly, these stores might offer recommended apps that don't pop up in the Google Play top ten charts.
- Curated list: Some apps stores have a specific focus and a smaller selection of app choices that have been filtered for quality, age group, or purpose.
- Localized portal: There are app stores that specifically cater to different countries, and may offer localized apps you wouldn't find otherwise.
If you are an Android developer, you'll also want to consider alternative Android app stores in order to maximize your exposure and ultimately your income.
What are the risks and problems?
The big risk is malware. In our Android app security basics article, we recommended sticking to Google Play and avoiding third-party app stores. The security policy on different Android app stores will vary; some will perform similar safety checks to Google, while others won't. If you are going to take the risk, then consider installing one of the top Android security apps first.
You will need to go into your Settings > Security menu, and tick Unknown sources to allow downloads of non-Play Store apps.
Other problems you may encounter relate to a poor user experience. There are also app stores that carry pirated versions of apps and games.
For developers, the problems are more complicated. The terms and conditions may result in enforced promotions, the developer portal might be less than transparent, and updates can take longer to push out.


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By JEFFREY R. BUNCH
Special to the News
Last Wednesday, Sept. 11, I attended a presentation titled "Food, Hunger, and the Politics of Hope" sponsored by the Columbia River Peace Organization at the Hood River Middle School.
I had hoped that Frances Moore Lappe's talk would talk about great progress in the battle against hunger and poverty that has been made in the 30 years since her best selling book appeared. Instead, enthusiastic attendees were told "our species is on a death march." Ms. Lappe went on to describe how mass media, and advertising create a collective belief system (what she calls a "mental map") in each of us that ultimately spreads globally and is "life-destroying." Lappe paints a picture that mankind is at war with nature, and plays upon our collective induced guilt to stop the ultimate evil: Genetically Modified (GM) Food.
Unfortunately, it appears that Ms. Lappe's mental map has been warped by more than just mass media and ads. I suspect that her collective belief system has fallen victim to the environmentalist's manta that the world is getting worse and worse. Bjorn Lomborg, author of the "The Skeptical Environmentalist," calls this the "Litany":
* Natural resources are running out.
* The population is an ever-growing ticking time bomb.
* Species are becoming extinct in vast numbers: forests are disappearing and fish stocks are collapsing.
* The planet's air and water are becoming more polluted.
* Human activity is defiling the earth, and humanity will end up killing itself.
* First World wealth causes third world poverty.
The problem is that while the chant-like repetition of this litany seems to comfort members of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, World Wildlife Fund and other environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) around the planet, there is little evidence to back these assertions, nor most of the statements uttered by Ms. Lappe during her talk.
First, energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not scarcer since 1972 — when Ms. Lappe published her book and the Club of Rome published "The Limits to Growth." Second, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7 percent of them are expected to disappear in the next 50 years (not the 25-50 percent predicted by the green NGOs.) Most forms of pollution have been exaggerated, or are transient. Their existence goes hand-in-hand with the early stages of industrialization, and is best solved by increasing economic growth, not restricting it. The cure for global-warming is worse than the disease (indeed, for the cost of compliance with the Kyoto Treaty for one year, we could supply all of poor Africa with clean drinking water and proper sanitation.) Lastly, more food is now produced per capita (and fewer people are starving) in the world than at any other time in history.
This is not to say that Ms. Lappe did not make some valid points. Indeed, one of her first statements was to point out that our society mistakenly believes in scarcity. Though she did not distinguish between consumer goods in our country and the natural resources and food around the globe, she does seem to imply that it is not scarcity of food that causes hunger, but rather a scarcity of democracy. I enthusiastically agree with her on this point.
Where Ms. Lappe's reasoning starts to falter is how she blames "our" presumption of food scarcity for the existence of GM food. She argues that large multinational agribusinesses greedily create the market for GM foodstuffs by hyping the need for more food. Nonsense. The demand for higher yielding agriculture is driven by farmers who want to produce more food with less land, using less pesticides, less gasoline, and creating less soil erosion. She never mentioned the fact that GM food has never been shown to be harmful.
She omitted how GM crops and high-yield farmer techniques have helped India and Pakistan to become self-sufficient. In the 30 years since Ms. Lappe wrote her book, India's population has doubled, her crop production has tripled, and her economy has grown nine times. Those results, and the millions of lives saved from famine, could not have occurred with Lappe-endorsed farming techniques.
I suspect nirvana, in Ms. Lappe's mental map, is a world where egalitarian land reform is combined with organic farming to create self-sufficient, eco-tourist-friendly countries. Thank goodness that most of the world's farmers take such ideas as foolishness, as implementation would lead to massive famine and massive expansion of pristine land put into agricultural production. Organic farming, while certainly acceptable and desirable for wealthy countries like the U.S. where we have an abundance of food, simply cannot produce the same yields as modern farming techniques and GM food utilization.
Indeed, Kenyan scientist Florence Wambugu, who pioneered the first genetically modified sweet potato in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s, says farmers growing tissue-cultured bananas in East Africa were able to triple income and double yields. A sample study of 500 farmers involved in the project in Kenya now earned $120 per month from $42 previously and yields rose to 45 tons per hectare from 20 tons per hectare. "We got 10,000 families out of abject poverty. It was good to realize what many anti-GM groups say can't be done. That it won't help small farmers, is only a myth," she recently told reporters. Such success have been repeated the world over.
Statistics suggest that high-yield agriculture slows down population growth rather than accelerating it, by starting the progression from the high-birth-rate, high-death-rate societies of feudal cultures toward the low-birth-rate, low-death-rate societies of Western nations. In subsistence agriculture, children are viewed as manual labor, and thus large numbers are desired. In technical agriculture, knowledge becomes more important and parents thus have fewer children in order to devote resources to their education. Modern farming practices which chemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetic engineering rescued India from its eternal cycles of famine and huge debts from importing food. Perhaps the same techniques, if used in Southern Africa, could prevent the man-made and drought induced famine currently affecting 13 million people.
Ms. Lappe brought up a "recent USDA report that shows GMOs offer no economic advantage" several times, though no such report exists. Ms. Lappe mangled salient facts concerning a Canadian court's recent decision against a canola farmer who illegally used GMO seeds without paying royalties to the manufacturer. Polar ice caps are not "melting faster than predicted," as she claims.
She seemed only vaguely aware of the irony of the 13 million starving Africans being kept from 17,000 tons of corn shipped by the U.S. because Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have lobbied African governments to reject the food for fear it may contain GM grains. On this last issue the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) recently said it was despicable that environmental groups were playing games with the empty stomachs of starving people. I guess this is what Ms. Lappe meant when she repeatedly said the U.S. is "out of step" with the rest of the world.
There is hope for Ms. Lappe, however. She did rightly object to the massive agriculture subsidies paid to the American and European farmers by the US and the EU. Though Lappe struggled with economic consequences of such policies in North America, she accurately decried the brutal effects of those policies on third world farmers. Agriculture subsidies total about $300 billion annually, which cost farmers of poor nations about $50 billion in lost revenue. That, in turn, effectively negates the $50 billion in aid the world sends to the developing world every year. Perhaps in her next round of talks, Ms. Lappe will talk about how to really help the world's poor by eliminating massive agricultural subsidies, and promoting wealth development with the rural poor.
But by currently advocating subsistence farming (and the resulting poverty it creates) for the poor world's farmers, Ms. Lappe only serves to restrict their economic and democratic choices.
Jeffrey R. Bunch is President of LVS Capital Management in Hood River.
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THE MODERATOR: At this time I'd like to introduce the head coach for the No. 1 ranked Florida State Seminoles, Jimbo Fisher. Coach, welcome and congratulations on a terrific regular season and ACC Conference Championship.
JIMBO FISHER: Thank you very much, and we're very honored to be here and representing the ACC and very excited about playing in the Rose Bowl National Championship and the BCS National Championship. Our kids are really looking forward to the opportunity, and it's been a tremendous season for us. We've got a tremendous group of players and coaches that have worked very hard and fans that have supported us, and we're looking forward to the opportunity to play a great Auburn team from the SEC and should be an outstanding ballgame, and looking forward to it. Never been to the Rose Bowl, so we're really looking forward to coming out that way.
THE MODERATOR: I'd like to introduce the head coach for the No. 2 BCS ranked Auburn Tigers, Gus Malzahn. Coach, congratulations on a couple of past thrilling weeks and the SEC championship.
GUS MALZAHN: Yeah, thank you. It has been a very fine year, real proud of our team and our coaches. This team has gotten better each week, and they're playing their best football at the end of the year. It's exciting to win the SEC championship yesterday. We're looking forward to playing a great Florida State team in the National Championship game, and it ought to be a good one.
Q. My question is for Jimbo. Your team has had a lot of momentum throughout the year, a big win last night against Duke. What's the biggest challenge of having a month to prepare these guys and to keep the momentum going?
JIMBO FISHER: Well, I think you have to ‑‑ you put things and prioritize things and have a system and a process about how you want to get to where you're playing well again. It's almost like you're back in two‑a‑days. You have to rest and heal up and then you have to get the right preparation and the right amount of time on the game plan. But it is a very challenging thing. It's the one thing about bowl games that is very unique because at the end of the year, you have 30 days left. That is the unique challenge of bowl preparation. We feel like we have a good system in which we can get our guys ready, and time will tell.
Q. Looking at Auburn's offense with the read option, you've coached a lot of years. Have you seen anything like it in terms of the productivity from that offense, from an offense like that?
JIMBO FISHER: Well, I think they're doing a tremendous job. Gus does a tremendous job, because like I say they can handle on the speed sweep, they outflank you, they have great receivers and motion guys that way, they can run the ball inside with great power and the quarterback can run it and play action off of it, which is like a four‑headed monster ‑‑ you talk about a three‑headed monster, they have a four‑headed monster and they have an excellent offensive line. But no, the productivity is amazing what they've been able to do and we all know that the SEC is an outstanding league and they play great football, and what Gus has done is really amazing, and they'll be a tremendous challenge for our team.
Q. Coach Fisher, you talked last night about not getting too caught up in the emotions because the mission wasn't done. I wonder if you could talk about the steps you've taken to keep this team on their focus all year long, to take it one game at a time and how you've managed to do that all season long?
JIMBO FISHER: I think we were able to send a message and I think we've learned some lessons from past years and how we've done that, but I think our assistant coaches have done a tremendous job and our senior leadership has done a tremendous job of selling the process how we go about things. They reinforce it. Coaches can say it all you want and we reinforce it every day, but the players have to reinforce it amongst themselves when they see it and the guys get distracted, because the players really know what's going on with your organization from within, when guys are not taking that approach. I think our senior leadership has been tremendous and just the overall leadership of the team, and that's the key to it in my opinion.
Q. You knew last night after the game that you guys were going to be in the title game, but I'm wondering what it was like when you finally heard it or saw it on TV or when the reality hit? When did it finally hit and what was that like?
JIMBO FISHER: It was more today when we heard it because last night you're so caught up in the emotion of the game of trying to win the conference championship. We talk about the National Championship, but man, being a conference champion is a tremendous accomplishment and there's a great sense of pride in that. We want to represent the ACC and we want to try to get another title and have two in a row like we did this year. When you woke up today, once you heard it on TV that you were the No. 1 seed and going into the National Championship game against a great opponent like Auburn, it does sink in, so you know it is reality, and all the hard work is paying off. Now we have to relax and get our bearing and go back and have a plan and be able to compete and finish the year.
Q. Coach Malzahn, I just wanted to know how it felt to be a part of the single greatest turnaround in college football history from the season that Auburn had a year ago to where you guys are at now. Has that part of it sunk in, and obviously you're in the championship game, but what does it mean to produce that amazing comeback season from a year ago?
GUS MALZAHN: Yeah, I'll tell you what, it's been a lot of fun to coach this group, and they have come a very long way. Our first game we were probably an average at best team, and they just bought into the fact to get better each practice and each game, and they slowly improved and they found a way to win games early on when we weren't playing our best ball. Probably after the Texas A & M game our guys had a lot of confidence, beat a top 10 team on the road at the time at a tough place like that, and really since then our guys have been playing really good football.
Q. Coach Malzahn, you hit a little bit on the turnaround, but when you go there and replaced Coach Chizik this year, did you expect the turnaround to be so quick and so successful?
GUS MALZAHN: Our goal was real simple, just improve each game. We felt like if we did that we'd have a chance to be a pretty good team at the end of the year. We really never went into the fact of how many wins or this bowl or that bowl, it was really about us trying to improve, and that was our approach. We look up and we're playing for the National Championship, and it's really something.
Q. The way you guys finished up your season, the win in Alabama, the way it went down against Alabama and then winning the SEC Championship game, are your guys on an all‑time high right now?
GUS MALZAHN: Of course you know Alabama is the No. 1 team in the country at the time, and of course that's our natural rival, and the Iron Bowl and everything goes with that is big enough, but then when you add in the fact that the winner goes to the SEC Championship and wins the west, there was a lot of pressure. Our guys handled themselves extremely well. It was a close game, they thought they'd find a way to win, and they did that.
Q. Coach Malzahn, I have two questions. One, with your offense, how much of a percentage of your offense is in place now from when you came into the season with, and early on you didn't have all of it in? And then two, how much will you pull from being a part of this in 2010 and being the offensive coordinator in terms of preparing for this year's National Championship game?
GUS MALZAHN: Well, first of all, any time you experience something, it's got to help, it's what we're hoping.
As far as ‑‑ what was your first question again?
Q. How much of the offense is in now?
GUS MALZAHN: Yeah. Each week we added two of what Nick's strengths were, and I'd say that our entire offense as far as this year is concerned, we've all but got it in.
Q. Coach Malzahn, with the kind of ride that you guys have been on the past few weeks, would it be your preference if you could to go ahead and play this game next week?
GUS MALZAHN: I'll tell you what, it wouldn't hurt my feelings, but you know, hey, what is it, 30 days and everything that leads up to it, getting a chance to be a part of it in 2010, there's a lot of great memories that go with it, and like Coach Fisher said earlier, you get a plan together and strategically find a way to prepare your team to be ready.
Q. The game last night, obviously a very high‑scoring game, a very back and forth game. You've had a lot of those kind of games this season. As you go up against a team that's got a quarterback who will probably win the Heisman Trophy, a lot of weapons on offense, do you feel it's important to try to avoid one of those kind of games, to get into a kind of track meet, or just keep playing the style that you've been playing?
GUS MALZAHN: Well, first of all, we've got a huge challenge against their offense. Their quarterback is unbelievable, the receivers are unbelievable. They can run the football. So it'll be a huge challenge for our defense. So we've got our work cut out for us.
This year it's been very unique. Our team has complement each other. When our offense hasn't played well our defense has played well, and vice versa. So hopefully we can do that again.
Q. Jimbo, you guys played in the first one, Florida State did, after the '98 season. The SEC has dominated the latter half of the BCS. As we wrap this thing up, is there a neat symmetry you would see as a coach or are you too inside the bubble to appreciate that?
JIMBO FISHER: You are inside the bubble now but as you step back you do appreciate it. I was in the SEC a long time, I coached there 15 years, and I remember the SEC couldn't crack it was always fighting to get somebody in saying we were good. Then all of a sudden, you know, Oklahoma and that group had their run, and USC had their run and now the SEC has their run. They have had a tremendous amount of success, have a great league and are playing great football. But it is kind of ironic that things always go in circles and come in cycles like that that everything comes back around to where it started and it's very unique that the SEC, which is dominating now, Florida State which was in the first three National Championships '98, '99 and 2000 and all those National Championship games, it's kind of funny how it has come full circle like that and I do appreciate the history of college football that way, and we all complained about the BCS and everything that goes on, but it's funny how many times they get it right and how the history just keeps repeating itself.
Q. You said yesterday you didn't really care who you played, you were just glad Florida State was in it. But is it nice to play an SEC team with the way things have gone with college football the last few years?
JIMBO FISHER: The SEC has great tradition, they play great football, they're coached well. It's very important there. They make sure they have the resources and things they have to do to be successful, so from that standpoint it is. Ohio State has a great tradition also, but it is very unique to play against the SEC and the last one is probably appropriate because the dominance they've had now and the dominance that Florida State had earlier, it's probably appropriate that these two teams are playing.
Q. Gus, how nice is it to have to have spent the evening and the morning and the afternoon politicking? How nice was that for you just to sort of realize you guys were in?
GUS MALZAHN: Yeah, I'll tell you what, it was very refreshing. It was a lot of fun last night. We saw that Michigan State won the game, and it's been a very relaxing day.
Q. Gus, everybody is a little tired at this time of the year because it's been a long season. Have you noticed that your team in particular, and essentially you've been playing playoff games and really intense playoff games for the last month, games that have gone down to the wire. Have you noticed a team that maybe could use a break more than some other teams you have had in the past because of the high intensity of the games that they've been playing lately?
GUS MALZAHN: I'll tell you what, you're exactly right. The Georgia game goes down to the very end. It was a very physical game, a very emotional game, especially the way we won it. The fortunate thing was we had a week off to recover, and then of course we play our rival and play Alabama and everything that goes with that. That was a very physical game, an emotional game. I was very concerned how we'd recover and put that behind us and go play a really good Missouri team. But our guys found a way to do that, and they were ready to play. They put the Alabama game in the rear view mirror and found a way to play.
But it doesn't hurt to heal up, to get fresher, because we're going to need our best game to have a chance to beat these guys.
Q. Coach Fisher, I just wanted to know after the month you guys have had and everything with Jameis's situation and it all being behind you guys, how nice is it going to be to have this month to hopefully just focus on football and nothing else?
JIMBO FISHER: I think it'll be very good. I think our team did a tremendous job of handling that situation while it was going on, but it will be good. There's no worries behind us and all we have to do is look forward to the future and plan and preparing for a game, and I think it'll be very good for him, too. As I say, he did an unbelievable job of dealing with the adversity which he had to deal with, and I think it's a great release for he and our team as far as that goes. But our team didn't really show a lot of emotion either way. They handled their business and they controlled the things that they can control and that's how they played and prepared. It'll be nice, there's no doubt.
Q. Coach Fisher, yesterday Jameis said he might have had a little too over‑hyped for that game. What are you going to have to do to keep him even keeled, especially going up against a team from his home state?
JIMBO FISHER: I think we'll work on things, and I think part of that, too, was the announcement and the things that went on, and I think it was a different mindset for him just a little bit. But he'll handle it very well. We played in a lot of emotional games, going to Clemson this year, playing in the Miami game. There were a lot of games that way and you learn from your experiences and we all learn as we go forward and that is the one thing you can't simulate is game and game pressure and things that happen, and I think he's a very quick learn, he's proven that in everything he's done and been able to handle and I think he'll deal with that situation once we get out there.
Q. Coach Fisher, are you making a case for Jameis for the Heisman?
JIMBO FISHER: I think when you talk about Heisman you talk about great players. I define great players like this ‑‑ it's a great performance over a long period of time and the consistency which you play with, and I think the thing that he has done from start to finish, he's been consistent throughout the year. Big games. Big situations. And accounted ‑‑ whether it was the first game of the year which we were on TV outstanding to the last game and led us to a championship, and to me is the mark ‑‑ when you talk about Heisman Trophy winners, how do they affect your teammates? How does he positive ‑‑ he does that in a tremendous way, give us great confidence and not only on offense, but on defense too. Our defensive players ‑‑ I don't know if anybody in America has done that more so than he has, not only played well, performed well, but affected the performance of his team on a week in week out basis by how they play, how they prepare and the results of which they've gotten. So from that standpoint I think Jameis is definitely out in front of that category.


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April 12, 2011
Bethsheba Johnson, G.N.P.-B.C., A.A.H.I.V.S., is an associate medical director of St. Hope Foundation in Houston, Texas.
As I look back over the recent past in HIV research, I am impressed at what advancements we have made, yet disturbed at what little we know and have done regarding HIV prevention and treatment in women.
It seems like only yesterday (actually 1993) that reproductive-age women were allowed to enter clinical trials. That was a banner day! We've come a long way, baby. But as women we have a long way to go to catch up with male enrollment in clinical trials. Most drug trials -- whether regarding diabetes, hypertension or HIV -- have been largely conducted on white, middle-aged men; that data were then generalized to all genders and races. Excuse me, but we aren't all white men!
The GRACE Study is a landmark clinical trial that was designed to recruit and retain women and people of color. It was conceived in 2006. Unfortunately, I have yet to see this replicated in other large-scale clinical trials. There are differences between men and women! Hello? Has anyone noticed?
Currently, one of the hottest topics in HIV prevention research is that of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission. The most noteworthy study in this field to date is the CAPRISA 004 trial, which featured a vaginally applied gel containing tenofovir (Viread) and showed that a two-dose modality of this gel offered women a statistically significant level of protection from acquiring HIV infection vaginally.
The second study was the iPrEx study, which showed that a once-daily pill of the combination drug tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada) also reduces the risks of acquiring the virus among men who have sex with men (MSM). Based on these findings, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released interim guidance on the use of PrEP by MSM -- and only MSM.
I'm awaiting the outcome of research in women around reproductive issues, especially for HIV-uninfected women in a serodiscordant, heterosexual relationship in which the male partner is HIV infected. For instance, HPTN 052 is a phase 3, two-arm study of two different treatment strategies (immediate treatment initiation versus deferred treatment initiation) in preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in HIV-serodiscordant couples. This study grew out of the theoretical correlation between HIV viral load and HIV transmission. Specifically, the higher the viral load in the blood, the more likely the chance for transmission. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces the viral load in the blood, as well as in genital secretions (for both men and women), and the drugs can be detected in semen and vaginal/cervical secretions. All of this information strongly suggests that ART may make HIV-infected people less infectious during unprotected sex.
HPTN 052 compares the HIV infection rates of two groups of HIV-serodiscordant couples. The index case of the first group starts taking ART as soon as the couple is enrolled in the study, while the index case of the second group starts taking ART when the HIV-infected male or female partner has two consecutive measurements of a CD4+ cell count within or below the range of 200-250 cells/mm3, or when he or she develops an AIDS-defining illness. Both groups will receive HIV primary care and couples counseling sessions to teach them how to reduce their risk of transmission.
HPTN 052 has closed accrual with approximately 1,750 couples in nine countries (primarily Brazil, India, Malawi, Thailand and Zimbabwe), who will be followed for 60 months.
There is also another trial in development worth noting: HPTN 067, called the ADAPT study. This is a behavioral study to evaluate the feasibility of intermittent dosing of a PrEP regimen (specifically, oral tenofovir/emtricitabine). Recommendations for intermittent usage, compared with daily usage, may provide comparable coverage of possible exposures with pre- and post-exposure dosing, decreased pill requirements, and decreased symptoms. The population studied will include women at high risk for HIV infection.
This is a very exciting time in research for women! So what can you do? Researchers should proactively design clinical trials with a strong recognition of the distinctive needs for, and barriers to, the recruitment and retention of HIV-infected women. Studies should be designed to include financial assistance to cover costs associated with transportation, food vouchers and child care; counseling and emotional support from clinicians and other HIV-infected women; employment time restraints; family commitments; and other psychosocial issues.
Meanwhile, what we can do as health care providers is to keep abreast of research in women and improve opportunities for our female patients and clients to participate in clinical trials.
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