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This interview was originally broadcast on Sept. 21, 1999.
It's no coincidence that composer Philip Glass and This American Life host Ira Glass have the same last name: They're second cousins, but they didn't know each other well when the Field Museum in the Chicago asked Ira to interview Philip on stage in 1999.
On today's Fresh Air, we replay excerpts from that conversation in honor of Philip's 75th birthday, which is Tuesday.
Philip Glass is one of the fathers of minimalist music. He started off writing for his ensemble and went on to write operas, dances and film scores, including the music for Koyaanisqatsi, Kundun, The Fog of War, No Reservations and The Thin Blue Line.
Interview Highlights
On working in his father's record store
"I worked there from the age of 12 until I was in my 20s. In those days, those were the old 78s. And all the records were scratched anyway, so you could play anything. So we played music all the time. By 15, I became the classical record buyer for the store. And I learned a lot because I was the one who ordered the records."
On his father
"He began as an auto mechanic. And then at a certain point in the 1920s and 30s, people started putting radios into cars. So he began fixing the radios just the same way he fixed the cars. He learned how to fix radios. Then he got interested in the radios and got rid of the cars and just had a radio shop. Then someone told him that he should sell some records in the radio shop, and gradually, over 10 or 15 years, the record part became bigger and bigger and bigger."
On his first job at the record store, which was to break records in order to send them back to the record label
"My first job, my brother and I, on the weekends, we went down to the store, and we jumped on records. ... That was my first professional job."
On style
"In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. In other words, when I say that style is a special case of technique, you have to have the technique — you have to have a place to make the choices from. If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents."
On repetition
"I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime — if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger. ... I think it's only after about 20 performances that we begin to understand what the dynamic structure of the piece is."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Philip Glass is celebrating his 75th birthday today. That's why this evening was chosen for the U.S. premiere of his "Symphony No. 9" at Carnegie Hall. Glass was one of the founders of what is often called minimalist music. He started off writing for his ensemble and went on to write operas, dances and film scores.
Here's an excerpt of his new symphony, performed by the Bruckner Orchestra from Linz, Austria conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, who is also conducting this evening's performance. The recording was released today on iTunes.
GROSS: Philip Glass was interviewed by Ira Glass, the host of "This American Life" in 1999. Ira is Philip's second cousin, although they didn't know each other well when they spoke on stage at the Field Museum in Chicago. Lucky for us, Ira didn't broadcast that interview on his show, but he gave it to FRESH AIR to play, which we did back in 1999. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of it.
IRA GLASS: We are first cousins once removed, which means that you're my dad's first cousin.
PHILIP GLASS: That's right.
GLASS: And the conversation that we had before this show was just long enough to play some Jewish geography...
GLASS: ...to relieve you all of the burden of hearing it. And our families both lived in Baltimore. By the time I was old enough to sort of be awake to anything you had moved, first to Chicago and then here, then to New York.
GLASS: No, I was here, I was in Chicago for about five years.
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: Fifty-two - '52 to '57.
GLASS: That was before I was born.
GLASS: By the time I was sort of awake enough to know that you existed you were in New York and then in Paris and...
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: ...and then back in New York. Your father owned a record store. First of all, I've read that you actually worked in the store sometimes.
GLASS: Oh, I worked there from the age of 12.
GLASS: Really?
GLASS: I worked in there until I was in my 20s.
GLASS: And do you remember what music was playing and what music you liked?
GLASS: Well, all kinds of music. In those days you could, those were the old days of 78s and no one worried about, all the records were scratchy anyway so you could play anything. So we played music all the time. I eventually became, by 15, I became the classical record buyer for the store. And I learned a lot because I was the one that ordered the records, 'cause my father, Ben Glass - that would've been your great uncle...
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: ...he was a self-taught - he knew a lot about music but he really learned it all by himself. He didn't have a music education background.
GLASS: Would he play you songs and composers...
GLASS: Oh, yeah.
GLASS: ...and say listen to this part, listen to this part?
GLASS: No. You know what was interesting, Ira, was that we had a very interesting collection of records at home. His introduction was interesting. He began actually, this is how it began. He began as an auto mechanic. And then at a certain point in the 1920s, 30s, people started putting radios into cars. And so he began fixing the radios just the same ways he fixed the cars he learned how to fix radios. Then he got interested in the radios and got rid of the cars and just had a radio shop.
GLASS: Then someone told him that he should sell some records in the radio shop, and gradually, over 10 or 15 years, the part of the record became bigger and bigger and bigger. And at the end of his life the radios were just a tiny bench in the back of the store and he used to fix radios there. So he came to music that way.
Now what he had at home - and he didn't know much about music, but he would buy these records and he would take them home. The ones that he couldn't sell he would take home because he wanted to listen to them to see what was wrong with them.
GLASS: You know, he said well, there must be something wrong with this music and he figured well, if he could figure out what was wrong with it then he would know what the other - so the music we had at home were like Shostakovich's String Quartet's music that was modern for that time.
GLASS: And why Shostakovich not selling in Baltimore at the time?
GLASS: Well, we're talking about the 1940s.
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: When - we're talking about pieces that were new at that time.
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: And the idea of classical music was really the European 19th, 18th romantic tradition, so anything that was modern at all was, had a difficult time. So we had, what we ended up at home with was a collection of very esoteric music. What happened is that the more he listened to this music the more he liked it.
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: And he ended up liking all this strange music that no one else listened to. And then he became an advocate for this music. And people - I witnessed this many, many times -people would come in the store and he would try to sell them all this new music that, he said - you know, I bet you never heard this guy Britten, Now this Benjamin Britten is a really terrific composer. And he would practically give these, push these records on people and he...
GLASS: And he had any number of people in Baltimore whose musical taste was formed by this. It was very simple - people came in and they'd listen to music and they learned by listening, and as they explored things they didn't know. And I witnessed this. Well, I have to tell you a really interesting story. Did I ever tell - I should tell you what my very first job in the store was. You see, in those days, those are the days of 78s, and every record store have always called, you had an allowance, a return privilege it was called. That was actually what it was, a return privilege for broken records.
GLASS: Wait. If you would take the record home and break it you could bring it back?
GLASS: No, no, no. No, it didn't work that way, Ira.
GLASS: If you were, if you had the store and some records arrived and they were broken...
GLASS: Oh, I understand.
GLASS: So for you...
GLASS: So the merchant could return the records.
GLASS: Right.
GLASS: It was called a return privilege. And it was a strict, it was something like, the way they figure it out they made it something like 5 percent of the records could be returned.
GLASS: Right.
GLASS: Now what happened was that you didn't actually break 5 percent of the records, but you could return 5 percent of the records. So what you had to do, if you wanted to return records and get your money back you had to break them.
GLASS: That's cute, huh?
GLASS: So that was your job?
GLASS: My first job...
GLASS: ...my brother and I were, on the weekends, we went down to the store, and we were sent to the basement and we jumped on records.
GLASS: We were - and...
GLASS: It's a good preparation for what was to come.
GLASS: Well, that's the kind way of putting it.
GLASS: Well, no, no.
GLASS: So, I gradually worked my way up - what?
GLASS: And classical music, right?
GLASS: It didn't matter.
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: It didn't matter what you broke.
GLASS: Eddie Fisher.
GLASS: They counted it by the label.
GLASS: Right.
GLASS: And you did it by the, you did it by the company so there would be, and there would be companies like OK Records or Blue Note Records or RCA Records, they all had a return privilege. But the only thing is that all the RCA Records have to be in their box and all the broken OK Records have to be in their box and all the broken Blue Note Records had to be in their box. You couldn't mix boxes. But they didn't really care what was on the record. They just had to be broken.
GLASS: Anyway, so I, that was my first pay - I wasn't actually paid. But that was my first professional job...
GLASS: In music.
GLASS: In the music world.
GROSS: We're listening to composer Philip Glass, speaking to his cousin Ira Glass, the host of "This American Life." We'll hear more of their 1999 interview after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: Composer Philip Glass is celebrating his 75th birthday today. Let's get back to the interview he recorded in 1999 with his cousin Ira Glass, the host of "This American Life."
GLASS: Now in 1964 you moved to Paris and you studied with Nadia Boulanger. Can ask you to talk about what she was like and what you learned from her?
GLASS: Oh, she was a, you know, I don't like to talk - are there any Boulanger students here in the room? I always get into trouble when I talk about her because actually she wasn't a very nice person.
GLASS: She was a wonderful teacher who was a great master of music technique, of counterpart of harmony, of analysis. And she was extremely, how can I say, demanding from the first moment you walked in. For example, if you arrived at the door of the apartment, if you are as much as a minute late it was better just to go home.
GLASS: Because if you came in late you got such an abuse. You were criticized on every level of your being and character and - so basically if Metro slow that day, if you got off at the wrong stop, and then you just went home.
GLASS: And there was something that the students called Black Thursday, something like that?
GLASS: Oh, yes. There was a general lesson of analysis that all the students went to, maybe 30 or 40 people. It was not a very large living room that she taught in, and then there was the Black Thursday class. And we were convinced that she put together her, eight of her students; she took the four best ones and the four worst ones and put them together.
GLASS: But you couldn't tell which you were.
GLASS: We couldn't tell which was which.
GLASS: By the time she got done with us we were just - those lessons were devastating. Those classes went on for three or four hours and they began at nine o'clock and went to about one.
GLASS: Describe a typical exercise.
GLASS: Well, I'll give you one. There were some very funny - this is one that I was very fond of because it was so sinister.
GLASS: You walked into the class and into the room and we were all there, of course, on time, for sure. And on the piano would be just line of music written in tenor clef, which is not a common clef, but you're supposed to know it. OK, so first of all, there's seven clefts. Probably most of you know two if you know any, you may know three clefts, but you're supposed to know seven. The first thing you do with her is you learned all seven. And she said, Danielle, before we begin the lesson today would you just play the harmony that goes with this melody? And Danielle would play the first chord. And she says oh my god. How can you play that chord? And she's like, OK, Paul, you play it. So she went through the room until we got the first chord right, then we did the second chord, the third, the fourth, the fifth. And finally, three or four hours later, she had beat us into completing this four-part harmony exactly the way it was supposed to be. And then she said well, you know, she said my dear children, she like, she says I really didn't expect to spend a day like this because, in fact, I thought you would know this. And she behind the music rack she pulled out, it was the second movement of a Beethoven viola and piano sonata. And it was, basically, she merely had expected us to replicate exactly the voice leading that Beethoven had done.
GLASS: From one of the melodies to re-create the entire...
GLASS: And she said well, of course, if you had, if you knew the piece it would have been easy.
GLASS: Well, she picks something that no one knew. And then and the fact that we had done it - actually, it was kind of a miracle that we had done it at all. She succeed - let's put it in a different way - she succeeded in eliciting from us the exact voice leading of the original. It took four hours.
GLASS: Do you think that there is a pedagogical efficiency to terror?
GLASS: You know, I find, I tell you, I'd finally after I'd been there about two years I finally figured out why I was there. We were having a lesson and I had come in with my harmony. We came to a place in the music and she said, it's wrong here. And I said, Madame Boulanger, it's correct. I cited the rules of voice leading and said that all these things are correct and there's nothing wrong with this. And she said yes, she said, but if Mozart had done it he would have done it like this. And she plays it the correct version, which was that perhaps the soprano was in the - the third was in the soprano instead of the root of the chord was in - whatever I had done I'd done it wrong. And I looked at her and I said but look, the rules are right here. And she said yes, but it's still wrong. I was astonished. And I - it was at that moment that I understood what she was teaching me. I realized that she was teaching the relationship between technique and style.
For example, now let's put the question another way. If you listen to let's say a measure of Rachmaninoff and then a measure of Bach, you know which is which without, you know immediately. And the question is well, why do you know that? They both are following basically the same rules of harmonic, of voice leading. But what happens is that you have in your, the course of your listening, you have taught yourself - you've recognized that Rachmaninoff will always solve a certain problem in a certain way. You may not say that to yourself, but your ear will tell you that. And that Bach will do it in his way. And you say, oh, that sounds like Bach or that sounds like Rachmaninoff or that sounds like Stravinsky. And what you're hearing is let's put it this way: You're hearing the predilection of the composer to resolve a technical problem in a highly personal way.
So in other words, now let's...
GLASS: And from that point, how hard is it to design your own personal way to solve it?
GLASS: Well, this is the point. The point is - and this is the other thing which she didn't say in words that day, but which I understood totally, was that in order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. In other words, when I say that style is a special case of technique, you have to have the technique.
You have to have a place to make the choices from.
GLASS: Yeah.
GLASS: If you don't have a basis on which to make to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all, you have a series of accidents.
GLASS: Looking at your career from the outside, one of the things that's striking is the number of different collaborators that you've worked with and I wonder if part of it is because you had the seminal experience of confronting somebody else's work.
GLASS: Well, that's exactly - that's exactly what happens when you find your place, yourself in a place of total ignorance of that kind. And that's the place where you can begin again, you can begin learning again. You know, the difficulty with any - well, it's not just artists or musicians but with anybody in any ordinary part of life - walk of life - the difficulty we have is how we continue to learn.
I mean, this is - everybody has this problem. Because you get what we call our training and education to a certain point and we spend the rest of our life changing gears in the same way. And the biggest - this is particularly true of composers, they pick up a style or way of working a certain way, but the real issue, I've always said to younger composers, it's not how do you find your voice but how to get rid of it.
Getting the voice isn't hard, it's getting rid of the damn thing. Because once you've got the voice then you're kind of stuck with it.
GLASS: You've said to Terry Gross - in fact, she's asked you - do you ever try to compose so it doesn't sound like Philip Glass?
GLASS: I do it all the time and I fail all the time.
GLASS: I learned that the only hope of shaking free of your own description of music was to place yourself in such an untenable position that you had to figure out something new. That happened with Ravi Shankar in 1964 and I repeated that experience. I do it whenever I can. And that means constantly finding new people to work with.
The thing is, is that as much as much as I try to do it, how rarely have I actually succeeded. It's very humbling, actually, when you realize how hard it is to break out of your own training. It's very, very difficult.
GLASS: And how do you feel about that? I mean, is a person only allowed on paradigmatic shift in their lifetime, you know?
GLASS: How do I think about it? I think it's very difficult. I think it's - let me put it this way. If I look at the body of work over the last 30 years and there are about 30 CDs, and if I look at it that way and if I take music that I wrote in 1969, let's say, or 1970 like music, with changing parts, of music, new parts, and then I compare it to "Dracula," something I wrote last summer; if I listen to those two pieces together they do sound like they were written - but on the other hand, if I look at pieces that were written within three or four years of each other I don't hear that. It takes a span of 10 or 15 years for me because the changes are so incremental that I don't - I can't notice them. But I can notice them over 20 or 25 years. I don't notice them over two or three years.
GLASS: I have to say one of the things as a listener that's striking about the newer pieces is that they seem much more romantic and melodic.
GLASS: Exactly. And you see that was the - you see, it depends where you start. Had I started perhaps with the romantic music I would've ended up writing minimal music. But I started writing minimal music so I end up writing romantic music. Basically, whatever point I started was, I left that point.
GROSS: Composer Philip Glass and his cousin Ira Glass, the host of "The American Life," recorded on stage at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1999. Philip Glass is celebrating his 75th birthday today, which is why this evening was chosen for the U.S. premiere of his "Symphony No. 9" at Carnegie Hall. You can hear the first movement on our website, freshair.npr.org. Coming up, Ken Tucker reviews Leonard Cohen's new album. This is FRESH AIR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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Curried Smoked Turkey Salad
- Amanda
Cafe enjoyment is often about strategy -- where you sit, how to coax the barista into making your coffee just so, making sure you get there before your beloved cinnamon roll is snapped up by someone else. Recently, my husband Tad and I figured out that if we wanted to be able to get a table for four on the weekends at our favorite local spot -- Iris Cafe -- we needed to arrive just before 9 am. We've managed to do it but it's not pretty. One of our kids usually leaves the house half pajama'd, and we end up sprint-walking -- no stopping to indulge one's curiosity in a sidewalk crack! -- there. But it's worth it so we can sit, each in our own seat, and stare at each other, half awake, as we gulp coffee and eat soft-boiled eggs with mashed avocado on toast.
Iris Cafe, in many respects, is the consummate cafe. It's on an obscure street in Brooklyn Heights, so there's no street traffic. And this means all of its customers are devotees, who make it their destination. The room is relaxed like worn-in jeans, the coffee is delicious (Stumptown), they sell local eggs and dairy (Brooklyn badge of honor), and the food is exceptionally good.
On Tuesdays, when we do our weekly photo shoot at my apartment, we occasionally get take-out from Iris Cafe (dinner roll and chocolate cake weeks need lunch supplements!). One of the food52 team favorites is the Curried Smoked Turkey Salad. So, for my second installment of the Counterfeit Cook Office Lunch Series, Iris Cafe's owner, Rachel Graville, shared the recipe:
Curried Smoked Turkey Salad
Adapted from Iris Cafe in Brooklyn Heights
Serves 4
Curry Mayonnaise:
- 1 teaspoon Patak's Garlic Relish
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise (homemade if you can)
- 1 pound smoked turkey breast, cut into 1/4-inch dice (Rachel likes Neuskes)
- 1/4 medium red onion, finely chopped
- 2 celery ribs, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1/4 cup flame or golden raisins (dried cranberries wouldn't be bad, either!)
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 4 large handfuls mixed greens
- Olive oil, for sprinkling
- Balsamic vinegar, for sprinkling
- 1/3 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted
- 4 slices cranberry (or raisin) pecan bread, toasted and buttered
1. Make the mayonnaise. Mix the garlic relish and mayonnaise, and adjust to taste, adding more garlic relish for more curry flavor.
2. Combine the turkey, onion, celery, raisins and black pepper, and then, little by little, add in the mayo, folding it together with a spoon. The salad should just come together, but not be too wet. Only season with salt if necessary (smoked turkey is usually salted).
3. To serve: sprinkle a bowl of greens with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar (the curry mayo also acts as additional dressing so use oil and vinegar sparingly!). Serve a generous scoop of the turkey salad on top of greens, top with a handful of the chopped walnuts, and a little more black pepper. At Iris Cafe, they serve this salad with a piece of toasted cranberry pecan bread from Pain d'Avignon, in the Essex Street Market.


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In 1964, then-Junior Chamber of Commerce members including Terry Collesano, left, and Richard Williams happened upon a large flag and flagpole set to be removed from the Old Fort Niagara Officer's Club. At their request, OFN donated the flag to the Jaycees. The club members then petitioned the Village of Lewiston Board of Trustees to plant the flag and flagpole in what residents today know as the "Hibbard's triangle," the park space across from the custard stand on Center Street.
The patriotic marker remained there for almost 50 years, until it was recently removed to give way to the Tuscarora Heroes monument. Fortunately, the village was able to relocate the flag and flagpole to Water Street, and plant it in between Water Street Landing and The Silo Restaurant.
Last week, Collesano and Williams paid a visit to the flag they rescued in 1964.
"I was upset that they were taking it down, but now that it's got a new home I'm happy," Williams said. "The Canadians can see it. The people in the river can see it. Everybody that comes here can see it."
"It lives on," Collesano said. (photo by Joshua Maloni)


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The Secretary and the Commission are authorized to propose rules, regulations, and statements of policy of general applicability with respect to any function within the jurisdiction of the Commission under section 7172 of this title.
The Commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction with respect to any proposal made under subsection (a), and shall consider and take final action on any proposal made by the Secretary under such subsection in an expeditious manner in accordance with such reasonable time limits as may be set by the Secretary for the completion of action by the Commission on any such proposal.
Any function described in section 7172 of this title which relates to the establishment of rates and charges under the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.] or the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.], may be conducted by rulemaking procedures. Except as provided in subsection (d), the procedures in such a rulemaking proceeding shall assure full consideration of the issues and an opportunity for interested persons to present their views.
With respect to any rule or regulation promulgated by the Commission to establish rates and charges for the first sale of natural gas by a producer or gatherer to a natural gas pipeline under the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.], the Commission may afford any interested person a reasonable opportunity to submit written questions with respect to disputed issues of fact to other interested persons participating in the rulemaking proceedings. The Commission may establish a reasonable time for both the submission of questions and responses thereto.
The Federal Power Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is act June 10, 1920, ch. 285, 41 Stat. 1063, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (§ 791a et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 791a of Title 16 and Tables.
The Natural Gas Act, referred to in subsecs. (c) and (d), is act June 21, 1938, ch. 556, 52 Stat. 821, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 15B (§ 717 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 717w of Title 15 and Tables.
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The April 15, 2008 edition of SDTimes (PDF download here) has some information about SSDS, the SQL Server in the cloud that was announced not long ago (and still in private beta). I'll mention a couple points here, but worth reading the article!
Says that it doesn't use the same entity model as SQL Server
Developers must use LINQ to access the data!
Automatically indexes
An analyst in the article notes that "SQL Server is for more experienced DBA's".
Cloud computing is damned interesting. I've lived in the real SQL Server/database world for too long to want to use a light weight engine, but I can understand why many would. I'm starting to think that we need to training all deveopers to be mini DBA's. They see the power and possibility of LINQ, Silverlight, etc, etc, what is about SQL Server that they don't like?


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4-H leaders continue to volunteer after a combined 80 years of service
PUNXSUTAWNEY — To make the best better" has been the motto of the 4-H Club for the past 100 years.
And making the best better is just what Jefferson County 4-H volunteer leaders Lois Pifer and Diane "Dolly" Smouse have been doing for 40 of those 100 years.
The "learn by doing," life-skills program engages area youth members, ages five to 19, in carrying out the mission of the club's founding four H's: Head, hands, heart and health.
According to Susan Alexander, cooperative extension educator for Penn State, members pledge their heads "to clearer thinking," their hearts to "greater loyalty," their hands to "larger service," and their health to "better living" for their "club, community, country and world."
Eighty four-year-old Pifer, of Reynoldsville Road, who has volunteered for 40 years, and 79-year-old Smouse, of Punxsutawney, who has volunteered for 38, have spent the past nearly-half century holding true to that pledge and leading youth members by example.
"Dolly and Lois are both a couple of the ones that I know I can give a call to, and they're going to step forward and help me when I need some extra help," Alexander said.
Their unanimous reason for so many years of service behind them seems to be simply and solely: "For the kids."
The reward, Smouse said, is "when you see them with that smile and their ribbon."
A world-wide "informal education program," the goal of the 4-H is to foster "citizenship and leadership," in addition to personal growth through various experiences, Alexander said.
Now present in 80 countries, the 4-H formed in Ohio in 1902 to initiate the acceptance of new agricultural technologies, but has evolved to become a club focused on the development of, according to Alexander, "confidence, cooperation and responsibility."
Anchored by an educational institution in each state, Pennsylvania's 4-H program is "parented" by a Penn State Cooperative Extension Program.
The Jefferson County chapter is comprised of 54 adult volunteers supervising 203 members in 16 traditional clubs, plus an additional 900 members involved in special interest and after-school programs, Alexander said.
The completely volunteer-guided clubs throughout the county — which all hone different names, ranging from Brookville's "Top Guns" to Punxsutawney's "Fast and Furious" — each focus on various primary projects in areas including horses, swine, beef, goats, dairy, sheep, lambs, rabbits, photography, leadership, air rifles, sewing and cooking. Raised in rural Pennsylvania and beginning membership in their youth, both Pifer and Smouse have always lived, what they call, the "4-H lifestyle." Back then, Smouse said, people lived on farms, made their own clothes and "cooked everything from scratch."
"If you couldn't walk there, you couldn't do it," she said.
While the principles of the program have remained the same, the times are not what they were 40 years ago.
"I was in clothing for three years, and I was in potato for one year," Pifer said. "A man in Reynoldsville would buy the seed potatoes, and you planted it, and then after you'd harvested it, you had to give him three bushel."
Potato and clothing clubs are hard-pressed to find, or fill, now, however. Both leaders have noticed a decline of member interest in activities that were once popular, such as sewing. Additionally, the fast-paced, busy lifestyle of today has caused a slide in 4-H meeting attendance.
"You didn't have everywhere to go like you do now," Smouse said.
"The kids now, they have too many other things," Pifer said. "It's not hip anymore. We've had 60 members in our little club. Now you're lucky if you have six."
The most notable change and challenge faced by the pair, however, has been dealing with advancements in technology, as everything, Smouse said, "has gone computer."
"We have a new enrollment system online," Alexander said. "We're all dealing with the challenges of that."
Following in the family footsteps, all seven of Pifer's children and all three of Smouse's have been involved with 4-H. Smouse's daughters, Sherri Spicher and Susan Breth, have both served as volunteer leaders for nearly half as long as she has.
Spicher, whose son and daughter are also 4-H members, credits her mother for her interest in the club.
"It's wonderful. You can see how she enjoys working with the kids and just being able to give them experiences they might not get at home," she said. "You see the kids grow, they develop responsibility. It's nice to see the kids take charge of something."
The common misconception of the club is the idea that it's strictly designed for residents of rural areas. Yet even within Jefferson County, members don't have to be a horseman to observe the four H's.
"That's one of the things that a lot of people think, that you have to be on a farm or something to be in 4-H today," Alexander said. "We have very few members that are really from a farm. We have a lot of kids that live within the city limits and board their horses someplace else or they have cattle that they lease."
The dynamic duo, after observing nearly half of 4-H's lifespan, plans to continue volunteering with the club as long as they, according to Smouse, "can keep going." For Smouse and Pifer, 40 years of service does not mark a measure of time, rather, it's just another number.
"You don't count it in years," Smouse said. "That's what you've been doing, you just keep doing it. It's a way of life."


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|Nowell, K., Schipper, J., Breitenmoser, U. & Breitenmoser-Wursten, C.
The Amur Tiger now occurs primarily in Russia, where it has made a spectacular comeback since the 1930s, when the population fell as low as 20–30 animals (Kaplanov 1948). The population is now estimated at 360 tigers (GTRP 2010), based on a comprehensive 2005 population census (Miquelle et al. 2007). This number, based on track surveys in the snow, probably includes around 100 sub-adults 20-et al. 2007) and a revision of the Amur Tiger's Red List category from Critically Endangered to Endangered in 2007. However, although these full range surveys provide fairly reliable information on tiger numbers, the logistical and financial levels of commitment make them infeasible to conduct on a regular basis. Population trends can be deduced from smaller-scale monitoring in smaller representative areas, focusing on parameters including tiger track density, local expert assessments of numbers, presence of females with young, prey abundance and other variables. Analyzing 13 years worth of data, the monitoring program has indicated a significant negative population decline, with a slightly steeper declining trend evident since 2004, despite a bounceback in tiger numbers in 2010 after a very cold and snowy winter in 2009 (Miquelle et al. 2010). Poaching of Tigers as well as their wild prey species is considered to be driving the decline (Schwirtz 2009). Moreover, a broad genetic sampling of 95 wild Russian tigers found markedly low genetic diversity, with the effective population size (Ne) extraordinarily low in comparison to the census population size (N), with the population behaving as if it were just 27–35 individuals (Henry et al. 2009). This reflects the recent population bottleneck of the 1940s, and concords with the low documented cub survivorship to independence in the Russian Far East (Kerley et al. 2003). Further exacerbating the problem is that more than 90% of the population occurs in the Sikhote Alin mountain region, and there is little genetic exchange (movement of Tigers) across the development corridor which separates this sub-population from the much smaller subpopulation found in southwest Primorye province (Henry et al. 2009).In China, the small population is not independently viable and dependent on movement of animals across the border with Russia (Kang et al. 2010). The continued existence of P.t. altaica in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is uncertain.
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Rain and sunshine have worked their magic, and gardens across the Fond du Lac area are bursting with good health. Capture your gorgeous greenery with the Fond du Lac Public Library's Picture a Garden display.
The city Transit Dept. has extended the Buses to Books program through the month of August.
Every Thursday, kids ages 6 to 17 can ride to and from the Fond du Lac Public Library for free when show their library cards. Kids ages 6 to 9 must be accompanied by an adult; adults pay full fare.
The BookCellar's annual bag sale will take place Saturday, July 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the lower level of the Fond du Lac Public Library. The sale is being held in conjunction with the downtown Sidewalk Sale.
Fond du Lac Literacy Services is planning a Scrabble Bee fundraising event on October 3. Teams will compete for highest scores and prizes.
The lazy days of summer are finally here. Time to grab that sunscreen, beach chair and umbrella and relax with the perfect beach read. My top choice for this summer is Ladies' Night by Mary Kay Andrews. Set on the sunny beaches of Florida, it has the perfect combination of romance, mystery and comedy. Though it is a tale of divorce and betrayal, the author tells it with her trademark humor and mixes a bit of revenge and sweet justice in for good measure. This one is chick-lit at its best.
Want to do two things at once? Try listening to an audio-book as you walk, run, exercise, work around the house, or drive. The Library has three kinds of audio-books: CDs, Playaways, and downloadable audio-books. The CDs can be used in any device that plays CDs such as in a car, entertainment center, or portable CD player. The Playaways are self-contained units about the size of a deck of cards. You put in your own AAA battery and add headphones or ear buds, and off you go listening to the book.
If you haven't stopped in the Children's Room yet, add it to your to-do list for this week! We have packed the week full of interactive fun.
The Buses to Books program lets kids ages 6 to 17 can ride the bus to the Fond du Lac Public Library and back for free on Thursdays June 13 to August 1, 2013, using their library cards as bus passes. Kids ages 6 to 9 must be accompanied by an adult; adults pay full fare.
Robyn Carr is one of those contemporary romance authors I just never get tired of reading, and her new book The Wanderer is an amazing start to her new Thunder Point series. I loved her long running Virgin River series, and I am happy to report this new book had all the elements I have come to expect from this author - small town charm, quirky characters, wonderful romance, and a little mystery thrown in for good measure. As the story line progressed and I met each character, I found myself identifying them with people I know, or know of, in real life.
June is National Audio Book Month, and the Fond du Lac Public Library is celebrating by giving out free ear buds to kids and free car-adapter cords to adults when they check out Playaway books. Playaways are MP3-like devices loaded with just one book that can be paused, forwarded, reversed – run just like any digital player.


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Checkout abandonment is a major problem for most e-commerce sites, but many of the factors causing customers to bail on purchases can be addressed.
Reasons for abandonment include high shipping costs, checkout errors, and the fact that some customers simply want to check prices.
Here are ten ways to improve the e-commerce checkout process, and minimise abandonment rates...
Avoid unnecessary barriers
Now, consumer surveys on e-commerce sites (and, for that matter, any site) are a fine idea, and they can yield some valuable insights, but there's a time and place for them.
On Sears, just as I have added an item to the basket and selected the guest checkout option, my progress to the checkout is interrupted by this:
This is a) annoying and b) a barrier to purchase. Getting the customer through the checkout process is more important than the survey at this point.
Why not ask once the customer has completed checkout, or follow up with an email?
Remove compulsory registration
Customers don't like having to register before checkout. A recent Econsultancy / Toluna study found that 25.6% of online consumers would abandon a purchase if they were forced to register first.
After adding items to your basket, what would make you abandon your purchase?
Sites like Amazon may get away with this, but I wouldn't recommend it for most sites. There are examples of sites which have moved away from compulsory registration and reaped the rewards.
ASOS managed to halve its abandonment rate at the registration page simply by removing any mention of creating an account, and another 'mystery' retailer added $300m to its annual revenues by removing the compulsory registration.
Most US e-commerce sites have seen the light on this issue, with eight of the top ten US etailers providing a guest checkout option.
One that doesn't is Newegg, which could do with a redesign of the whole site, not just the checkout:
By offering customers guest checkout with the option of registering later, you avoid the barrier of registration, but still allow easy registration once customers are through the process. After all, once they have entered address and payment details, all they need to do is create a password.
Enclose the checkout
This is about removing any distractions for customers and concentrating their minds on the task in hand.
Here's why retailers should enclose the checkout:
Reasons for enclosing the checkout
- By leaving out navigational elements, all unnecessary distractions are removed and this allows the shopper to focus purely on completing their purchase.
- Thanks to the removal of these distractions, information which gives the visitor confidence in their purchase is made more prominent, such as delivery details and customer service contact details.
- Security logos and messages are more visible, providing reassurances for the security-conscious shopper.
- It is made absolutely clear to visitors where they are within the checkout process and how many steps they have left to complete their purchase.
- Apart from the homepage link, customers can only head in one direction, towards the payment and order confirmation page.
Ideally, there should be no link that takes customers away from the checkout process, except perhaps a link back to the homepage.
Some customers may need reassurances about shipping times and costs, or returns. This information should appear in lightboxes which don't interrupt the checkout process.
In this example, Sears ticks all of these boxes:
Reaffirm prices and delivery charges
This allows customers to quickly check on the contents of their shopping carts and the total charges before they complete the checkout, removing any concerns about costs.
Provide alternative payment methods
According to WorldPay stats, alternative payments account for 22% of global e-commerce transactions, worth a total of €165bn.
Therefore, it makes sense to offer different payment methods and appeal to as many potential customers as possible.
Clear calls to action
The perfect call to action should be arrived at by a process of testing colour, placement, size etc, but customers should be in no doubt of how to proceed to the next step in the checkout.
On some sites, the calls to action are a little lost below the fold, or else 'drowned out' by other elements on the page.
I've seen worse examples than this, but Best Buy's call to action doesn't stand out as much as it could. Use of colour, and perhaps a bigger button, would improve it:
Show a progress indicator
At every stage during checkout, the customer should know where they are in the process and what remains to be done before the purchase is complete.
One way to achieve this is to have a progress bar across the top of each checkout page, which shows the stages within the checkout process and also highlights the customer's current location.
Let people use the back button
There may be times when customers want to go back a step or two in the checkout to check the address details they've entered, change the email address, and so on.
It should be easy to do this without losing the information already entered, but some sites make the following mistakes:
Browser error messages
If you press the back button during checkout on Hamleys.com, you get this message:
To the average e-commerce customer, a warning is only a cause for concern, possibly to the extent of abandoning their purchase. They don't understand the warning and can"t decide what to do, in case they get it wrong... and most importantly of all, this sort of warning is irrelevant in an e-commerce checkout.
AJAX checkouts
A very different problem that arises when customers use the browser back button is that it sometimes doesn't take the customer where they expect to go. This is mostly a problem when AJAX is used to step customers through a checkout process without moving from one web page to the next.
Using the back button will take customers to the last page they had looked at, which in an AJAX-driven checkout is likely to be the basket page – very annoying if you were on the fourth step of a five-step checkout and wanted to go back to step three! There are many different technical work-arounds to this problem.
Sites should make it easy for customers to navigate back and forth through the checkout, but should also ensure that they can use the back button.
Form design
Form design is worthy of a post of its own but, in a nutshell, forms should be easy to complete and should not ask customers for too much information.
Shortcuts like populating forms with information previously submitted, remembering address and payment details from previous purchases all help to ease progress through checkout.
Careful with coupon codes
Coupon codes are great for customer acquisition, but there can be drawbacks. For one, they alert customers to the existence of a possible discount, which may lead them to abandon the purchase in search of coupon codes.
Here are a few tips on avoiding these risks, some taken from this post on GetElastic:
- Only show the discount code box to those customers that have arrived via affiliate links or marketing emails.
- Issue private discount codes. These are sent to selected customers, and are associated with their email address or login details and therefore cannot be distributed via voucher code sites. However, the very existence of a code entry box will have some customers leaving the checkout to look for them.
- Use the code entry box to build an email list. By displaying a 'how do I get this?' message next to the box, retailers can keep users on site to get their discount code, with the added benefit of gaining a customer's opt-in for future email marketing.
- Link to your own coupon page. Again, this keeps customers onsite, and has the added SEO benefit of appearing in searches for brand name + voucher code.
- Disguise the box. A crafty trick, but making the box less visible, perhaps in a duller colour than other calls to action may mean that some shoppers will not notice it.
- Place a discount code next to the box. This could be a less generous offer than those on voucher code sites, but it could keep customers within the process while still feeling they have bagged a bargain.
- 'Hide' it below the fold. Those that have codes will find it anyway, but other shoppers won't immediately notice it.
- Use of language. This example suggests that customers can 'enter voucher code (if any)', implying that codes may be scarce, and customers might be wasting their time Googling around for one.
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Some great examples Graham. At AllSaints I saw some improvements in conversion where we really tried to reduce the visual complexity of the checkout. For example, we collapsed the giftcard entry section by default(as most customers wouldn't have one), it was revealed by a click.
This week at Schuh I've discovered some 'hidden' conversion issues that I found through analytics; basically we seem to be having problems with Macintosh users abandoning their basket. In this case, I think the lesson is 'make sure that your checkout works as well as you think it works across all platforms', but there is also a more general lesson of 'what can you learn from existing purchasing data?'
I cringe if I see the word register anywhere near a site's checkout. There's simply no need for it. Registration should always be a seamless by-product of the customer placing their order, not a prerequisite.
It's always good to focus back on CheckOut optimisation Graham.
I'm not sure I agree with you on this though:
> Ideally, there should be no link that takes customers away from the checkout process, except perhaps a link back to the homepage.
Isn't there an argument that sometimes a shopper will on impulse decide they want to add something else to the basket. (Sometimes an item that they had researched and planned to buy elsewhere, but on impulse decide to buy it here as it's less hassle than a whole new checkout elsewhere).
So a 'Continue Shopping' type button, or even a 'add one more thing' button may have pros and cons.
In fact, you do say the user should have flexibility to 'use the back button' - which is similar, and I guess a major reason may be to go back to remove things from the basket, so it's good to make it easy to add things too!
Hi Deri - I see your point. I tend to use the homepage / logo link if I need to add anything else, but it does make sense to have a more clearly labelled button which reassures the customer that no information entered will be lost.
I wonder if any sites have tried this?
These are great tips Graham. I especially agree with reaffirming prices and delivery charges, it can be a huge turn off to a customer and affect their loyalty if they find out there have been hidden charges. I've also found this showing retailers are losing millions through checkout abandonment. http://cloud-data-news.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/index.php/2012/10/01/retailers-losing-millions-from-abandoned-baskets/
Pre-checkout registration is one of the most frustrating elements of a online purchase. I definitely have gone elsewhere because I didn't want to sign up.
I don't think there is any harm in companies giving users to option to leave their email for offers, discounts, promotions should they be interested. Added towards the end of the checkout process.
You are right! Its been a long procedure to fill out for product shipping while shopping online. One step magneto will provide the single step cart checkout process and a easier way to shop online without any loss....
It has been a while since this article was written but still so impactive.
@Tom - I agree, processes that force registration prior to purchase are very frustrating, especially when you, the user & potential customer, just want to check out and get on. Guest checkouts are a great offering but at least offer a passive registration option.
@Stuart - Whilst your point was made over a year ago, how true it is. Following IE10 being updated, we discovered that desktop users paying via WorldPay were seeing the mobile payment pages, which would be great (as it was a good experience) but dependent on your screen resolution and screen quality, you could not see the payment button due to colour contrast levels. We too picked it up when analysing checkout abandonment data within analytics. It may take time trawling the vastness of your analytics suite but it can be very worthwhile.


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The Near-Term Future of the Coaching Staff – Dave McKay Puts It Out There
When the Chicago Cubs fired Dale Sveum as manager on Monday, they also kinda-sorta fired the entire coaching staff. Although some of the coaches are desirable return candidates, and some are believed to have had a contract through 2014, the front office decided to let all of the coaches go, with the understanding that they may want to see some return when the new manager was hired and had an opportunity to pick his own staff.
In that way, it was simultaneously a rough thing and a courteous thing to do – although the coaches may now be unemployed, they are at least not being held entirely in limbo awaiting a new manager. Should they want to pursue other opportunities, they could do so now. If they're willing to wait on the next guy to see what's up, they can do that, too.
One of the coaches that I'd think the Cubs very much hope waits it out is outfield/first base coach Dave McKay. An extremely successful and well-tenured coach over his long career with the Cardinals and Athletics, McKay is believed to have been instrumental in Alfonso Soriano's outfield renaissance over the past two years, among other things.
In a great piece at ESPN Chicago, Jesse Rogers spoke at length with McKay, who sounds interested in waiting to see how the managerial situation shakes out before exploring non-Cubs options. You'll want to read the whole thing for McKay's thoughts, but I did want to share one particularly striking, and appropriate quote, given the state of things.
"I'm 63 years old. If they say you're going to be winning in four or five years, I might not be there [in four or five years] even if I was asked," McKay told Rogers when asked about the desire to win again soon. "It's getting close to when I'm going to be retiring. Right now, I feel like I can do everything in the past. I don't feel my age. The chance to work with these guys is exciting …. They do have some talent where you're saying you wish they could fast forward this a little bit. There's going to be some talent showing up soon. You know they are going to be a winning organization, but you often wondered if you'd be a part of that."
That really sums it up, doesn't it? There's always a timetable running up against the excitement of the possibility of being a part of history. It can't be an easy choice for McKay or the other coaches who are considering waiting things out. And, for that very same reason, it can't be an easy choice for someone like Joe Girardi to decide whether to leave the comforts of success in New York for the challenge of Chicago.


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"The reason why he is called Hazrat Mahdi (as) is that he will head to one of the mountains in Sham. From there HE WILL PRODUCE THE (TRUE) BOOKS OF THE TORAH AND RAISE EVIDENCE AGAINST THE JEWS."
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Harun Ibn Maruf narrates from Zamra Ibn Rabia from Abdullah Ibn Shawzab: "It is certain that Hazrat Mahdi (as) is known as the 'Mahdi.' (as) Because he will be directed to salvation to one of the mountains of Sham, FROM WHERE HE WILL EXTRACT THE BOOKS (VOLUMES) OF THE "TORAH" AND WILL ENTER INTO DEBATE WITH THE JEWS ON THE BASIS OF THESE AND (EVENTUALLY) A GROUP OF JEWS WILL BECOME MUSLIMS BY HIS HAND.
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|We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, AND THE PROPHETS WHO HAD SUBMITTED THEMSELVES GAVE JUDGMENT BY IT FOR THE JEWS – AS DID THEIR SCHOLARS AND THEIR RABBIS – BY WHAT THEY HAD BEE ALLOWED TO PRESERVE OF ALLAH'S BOOK TO WHICH THEY WERE WITNESSES. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such people are unbelievers. (Surat al-Ma'ida, 44)
Under the just rule of the Imam az-Zaman [Hazrat Mahdi (as)], ALL THE DIVINE BOOKS WILL BE PRESENTED IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORMS AND WITH NO CORRUPTIONS. Imam Mahdi (as) will rule the people of the Torah with the Torah, the people of the Injil with the Injil, the people of the Psalms with the Psalms and the people of the Qur'an with the Qur'an.
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Bad news for Catholics who still dislike the new Mass translations
It seems like there's been a lot of news in the past few days, but here's an interesting story that has kind of slipped through the cracks: Pope Francis, in a meeting October 18 with members of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), praised them for their work on preparing the English translations of the liturgy.
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"The pope received the members of the Commission in audience this morning, and remarked that the fruits of their labours 'have not only helped to form the prayer of countless Catholics, but have also contributed to the understanding of the faith, the exercise of the common priesthood and the renewal of the church's missionary outreach...'"
They add that Francis commended ICEL for "enabling the vast numbers of the Catholic faithful throughout the world to pray in a common language … (which) has helped to foster the church's unity in faith and sacramental communion."
I'm not sure that really matches up with the experience of many Catholics in the United States. As we found out when we surveyed U.S. Catholic readers last year, most were still unhappy with the new English translation, as were many English-speaking priests. Perhaps Francis is unaware of how those new texts have been received at the ground level, and he hasn't heard the concerns of Catholics who were unimpressed with the translations. But at least for now, it doesn't appear that he's on the side of those who still want to revert back to the old translation of the Roman Missal.


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As wins mount, so does pressure on No. 4 Buckeyes
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- It's a long way away from Oklahoma's major-college record of 47 consecutive victories.
Still, Ohio State may be feeling the pressure of having the nation's current longest winning streak -- 18 games.
"I can feel sometimes pressure mounting on players when you (are on a) streak," coach Urban Meyer said. "You start hearing about streaks. And it's my job as a coach and our coaching staff (to make sure) it's all about today."
The fourth-ranked Buckeyes (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten) can tie for the second longest streak ever at Ohio State when they host Iowa (4-2, 1-1) on Saturday.
The Buckeyes had won 19 straight, including a national championship, in 2002, and were ranked No. 3 when they fell at Wisconsin, 17-10. The 2005-06 team was ranked No. 1 when it lost 41-14 to Florida -- ironically, coached by Meyer -- in the national title game.
The most sustained streak at the school is 22 games, encompassing the 1968 national championship. The top-ranked and unbeaten 1969 team had scored almost as many points (62) in its opener as it had allowed through the first eight games (69). But it still was upended 24-12 at archrival Michigan, kicking off the Ten-Year War between Woody Hayes and his former Ohio State lieutenant, Bo Schembechler.
Long winning skeins don't come along very often. So it's only natural that when one does, it draws a lot of attention. Also, it piques the interest of opposing teams who would like nothing better than to quash the streak and steal some headlines.
As much as players talk about focusing on the present, the streak is always on the periphery, a consideration that only a few grudgingly acknowledge.
"It brings a little bit of pressure," defensive tackle Joel Hale said. "It's great to be part of something outstanding. What are we 18-0 now? Going for 19-0? But our main goal right now isn't to win the next four games, it's to beat Iowa."
Not everyone around the Buckeyes program considers the streak a 500-pound gorilla in the locker room.
Co-defensive coordinator Everett Withers believes winning several games in a row doesn't mean a buildup in pressure.
"I really don't believe it does. Every game is its own entity and you go in and you work on every single game and not look at what's happened in the past," he said. "The hardest thing as a coach is you're always thinking about the next one. As soon as you just finished with Northwestern, boom, we have a bye week but we are all planning on how to stop Iowa."
There are already enough potential distractions and white noise around a major program. A winning streak almost gets lost among the other possible distractions.
"We don't really pay too much attention to that," wideout Corey Brown said. "We always emphasize a one-game season. We don't really talk about the winning streak too much."
Told that the Buckeyes could match the second-longest streaks ever at the school, Brown said that would be a notable achievement but nothing that would get in Ohio State's way.
"I mean, it's a good honor, but that's not our ultimate goal so we don't spend much time on that," he said. "We're more worried about winning this next game and then winning some more games after that."


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IRVINE, Calif. (KTLA) — A woman described by Orange County authorities as a Saudi royal princess was arrested by Irvine police on suspicion of human trafficking.
Meshael Alayban, 42, is accused of forcing a Kenyan woman to work as a domestic servant.
Prosecutors allege that Alayban took the woman's passport and forced her to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, for just $220 a month.
Alayban was taken into custody early Wednesday at her Irvine home in a gated community.
She was charged with one felony count of human trafficking.
The alleged victim left the home on Tuesday, boarded a bus and eventually contacted police, Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas said.
"She waved a bus down, got on the bus and started asking for police and saying she believed she was the victim of human trafficking," he said.
"She had a pamphlet from the United States embassy describing human trafficking, so she seemed to know what that was."
In addition to the Kenyan woman, officers found four other women whose travel documents had also allegedly been taken by Alayban, police said.
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Alayban was identified by prosecutors as one of the wives of Saudi Prince Abdulrahman bin Nasser bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
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She accompanied Alayban and her family when they came to Irvine in May, along with four other women from the Philippines working under similar contracts, police said.
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She said that she was working for various family members living in four luxury apartments in a development off Jamboree Road, and was not allowed out without a family member present.
Alayban was being held on $5 million bail. Prosecutors had asked that she be held without bail, arguing that she was a flight risk.
A judge ordered Alayban to surrender her passport, not to travel outside Orange County and to wear a monitor if released.