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My question is what is the percentage of breast augmentation going bad? I really want to get it done, but latly as i've been researching i read a lot of bad stories saying that they're breast implant burst in two weeks, now is that possible to happend? My mom had hers done a few years ago and shes doing well no problems at all, will mine turn out like how she went through?
Is There A High Chance Of Implants Bursting or Causing Other Problems?
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Breast Enhancement Surgery
Bursting implants
Breast implant surgery is one of the most common procedures performed. In fact, there were approximately 318,123 performed in 2010 by board-certified plastic surgeons. During my many years in practice, I have seen implants in patients that have lasted for 20-30 years. Implants are not a lifetime device, and there is no way currently to predict if, how and when a rupture will occur.
Breast implant "failure"
Although breast implants can "fail" or cause problems, this is quite unusual. Saline implants can deflate and the body can absorb the fluid without problems other than the implant is flat and should be replaced. Old gel implants could break the outer shell and turn inside out with the gel on the outside and the shell on the inside. The newer gel implants don't do that. Because "horror stories" make better reading, they can seem to be more common than they are. By far the majority of patients who have had breast augmentations are happy. No one can guarantee that problems won't happen but they are the exception rather than the rule.
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Is There A High Chance Of Implants Bursting or Causing Other Problems?
There is no lifetime breast implant.
A saline implant will develop a hole or tear in the 'bag' at approximately 10 to 15 years after surgery. The saline will drain out of the implant over a couple of weeks. This is a completely safe event and will be obvious to the patient, who will then have the implant(s) replaced.
A silicone gel device will fail approximately 15 to 20 years after surgery. The gel will leak out of the implant, but will be contained by the scar tissue capsule that has formed around the implant.
While every operation has a list of risks and potential complications, breast augmentation is a well-established procedure with a very high rate of patient satisfaction.
Make sure you see a capable, experienced and caring plastic surgeon and chances are that you will be very pleased.
Good luck!
Learn more: http://www.vancouvercosmeticsurgery.ca
Implant ruptures
I rarely see many implant ruptures in my office and I do a LOT of breast surgery. While no one can tell you how long an implant might last, I have seen two ladies in my office who had saline implants for 28 years before one broke (and saline implants weren't used much 28 years ago). I have also seen a few patients recently who had their silicone gel implants done by my father in the early 1970's. When I took them out, only one was broken! The nice thing about saline implants is that you will definitely know it if an implant breaks. You will have a "flat tire" within a matter of a few days. The nice thing is that it is just saline (salt water) which your body will absorb. The newer silicone gel implants are called cohesive gels, meaning that you can literally cut them in half and they will maintain their shape. There is less risk of silicone "leaking out."
Risks of breast implants are rare, but can occur.
(VIDEO INCLUDED) Breast implants are relatively safe. Complications such as implant rupture, malposition, leaking, and capsular contracture (or scarring around the implant) are possible but rare. The actual statistics are available and your board certified plastic surgeon can give you the actual percentages. The key is that these complications can be minimized when the breast augmentation is performed by an experienced surgeon. I also use a special implant delivery device called a Keller Funnel that decreases the risk of many of these complications. It has been a huge advance for my practice and my patients get the benefit of lower pain, shorter incision, and less complications.
Learn more: http://www.drschulmanplasticsurgery.com/breast/breast-augmentation/
Low risk of implant breast failure in my experience
First, breast implants don't "burst" or "rupture" so I think we need a better terminology to talk about what does sometimes happen. The implant shell can open up from wear over time, so with a saline implant this is called a deflation because the saline is harmlessly absorbed into the body and the implant goes flat. Silicone gel in implants is cohesive, meaning that it is semisolid so the shell can be sliced wide open and the gel doesn't spill out; it is a silent event, despite the image that people have of implants exploding. In my experience of more than 20 years and thousands of augmentation patients, I would estimate the implant failure rate at no more than 1 or 2 percent.
Breast Augmentation Complications
You are smart to be considering the risks associated with breast augmentation surgery. These risks include leakage, encapsulation, loss of sensation, interference with mammography, movement of the implants and the probable need for further surgery in your lifetime. You may find the link below to be helpful.
Best Wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_breastaugmentation-risks.htm
Breast Augmentation Complication Rates Are Low
Across the board, breast augmentation rates should be extremely low. Each surgeon is different, and some are more skilled than others which can play into complication rates. Those who do a lot of breast aesthetic and reconstruction rates should have an overall complication rate for breast augmentations in the 2-3 % range. The vast majority of women do extremely well and have no problems with the surgery or post-op long term. The internet often acts as a vehicle for patients to express their unhappiness and frustration with things gone bad, but for every person that you read about with complications, there are probably one hundred that are doing fine. I hope this helps.
Risk of Leaking Implants
Breast Implants have probably been studied more extensively than any other implant in medicine. Of all the issues I see with women who have had implants, leakage or deflation, is among the most uncommon. The risk over ten years in any given women is probably less than 6-8 %. Inadvertent damage to implant during surgery and the presence of manufacturing flaws are responsible for these deflations. The odds are great that you will not have a problem with this but nevertheless there is a relatively high re-operation rate with breast augmentation as presented in medical literature. This may be due to wanting to change the implant size, hardening of the implant due to scarring and of course deflation. Most women having this operation are satisfied however. It's certainly good to get your concerns addressed before surgery so you can make an informed decision. Best of Luck Dr Harrell
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Cory Schneider, who the Devils took from the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday for the price of the ninth overall pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft (aka forward Bo Horvat). Suddenly the Devils have a talented netminder who is just entering the prime of his career.
Martin Brodeur admitted that the trade shocked him, but it didn't take him long to warm up to the move.
"I think for the future of the organization it's the best move," Brodeur told the Bergen Record. "Cory is one of the top five goalies, in my mind, in the NHL. (It's) a chance for him to get away from the chaos of Vancouver.
"I'm not going to play forever. I think it's great that I'm going to be able to play with him. I'm definitely going to try to push him and get my ice time as much as I can while I'm still able to play. Definitely, he's the future of the organization."
Despite Schneider's skills, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello insisted that Broduer would still be the number one goaltender in 2013-14. Brodeur certainly still sees himself as a starter.
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The number of international scheduled flights to Bulgarian capital has increased by 10.7% and the international carriers report a 12.8% increase.
A total of 93 touristic charter flights have been recorded in May 2014, compared to 64 for the same month of 2013.
The number of serviced passengers in May 2014 is 349,221. Those who have used international scheduled flights are 10.6% more compared to the same period of previous year.
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Sam Bohm had 16 points and Canon-McMillan closed out the game on a 19-8 run as the Big Macs pulled into a tie for first place in Section 4-AAAA with a 62-46 victory at Baldwin Tuesday night in a high school boys basketball game.
The Big Macs (6-2, 10-5) entered the evening a game behind Upper St. Clair in the section standings, but Bethel Park's 72-48 victory over the Panthers pulled Canon-McMillan into a tie for the section lead.
Costa Karanikos added 15 points for the Big Macs, while Britton Beachy added 11.
Arnes Bajgora had 19 points and Szan Zepic had 12 for Baldwin (2-7, 3-13).
Burgettstown 74, Bishop Canevin 58: Dylan Dhans had 16 points and 13 rebounds to lead Burgettstown to a 74-58 Section 4-AA win over Bishop Canevin.
Cole LaRocka had 17 points for the Blue Devils (2-5, 4-12), while Logan Priebsch had 15 points in the winning effort.
Brennan Cahill led Bishop Canevin (0-8, 3-14) with 12 points.
Peters Township 58, Moon 33: J.C. Brush and Connor Freely combined for 27 points as Peters Township defeated Moon, 58-33, in a Section 4-AAAA game.
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Lauren Crites added 19 points for the Lions, who have moved into third place in the section. South Fayette (5-2, 7-7) led 44-39 after three quarters before outscoring Moon, 22-18, in the final eight minutes.
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Power Rankings: Nationwide Children's HospitalJuly 18, 2011
John Dell, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent
Russell Knox summed it up best after the first victory of his career on the Nationwide Tour on Sunday. "There are so many good players out here and you have to bring it every week," he said.
This week the Tour stays in Ohio and moves to Columbus for the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational at Ohio State's Scarlet Ccourse. It will be the second week of an eight-week stretch of events on the Nationwide Tour.
Much has been made about the veterans winning on the Nationwide Tour this season but Knox, 26, became the third player in his 20s to win this season. The other two are Ted Potter, Jr. and amateur Russell Henley.
Other than the year-ending Nationwide Tour Championship, this week's event has the biggest purse on Tour with $800,000 and $144,000 going to the winner. D.J. Brigman won last year's tournament.
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Power Rankings: Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational Rank Player Comment Russell
When you go 25-under over four rounds to win your first career Nationwide Tournament it means you are doing something right. Knox moved from 27th to fifth on the money list and is looking to do more damage. With one of the best fields of the season here this week hell have to continue his outstanding play if he wants to contend. Bill
The former Navy lieutenant has his ship going in the right direction after a second place showing on Sunday. Hes in his first full season on the Nationwide Tour and has jumped from 173 to 22nd on the money list over the last few weeks. Look for him to be in contention again. Mathew
The Tours leading money winner has two victories this year, but missed the cut at the Chiquita Classic. He has four top-10s in ten tournaments and another victory would give him an instant promotion to the PGA TOUR. He ranks second on Tour in scrambling. Danny
Hes coming off a tie for 22nd with rounds of 70-70-67-68 and is 21st on the money list. Hes been consistent on the Nationwide Tour all season with six tournaments and six made cuts. This just might be the week where the 20-year-old breaks through for a win. He turns 21 on Sunday so it would be a nice present if he could get that first Nationwide Tour victory. Peter
The amateur who is in the field because he was a first-team All-America at Oklahoma State is coming off a tie for 48th at the British Open. If he avoids jet leg he could make a run. He also played in the Nationwide Childrens Hospital Invitational last year but missed the cut.
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June 1, 2005
The first sentence of Debra Rienstra's new book sets the tone for the whole. It asks: "Who will welcome me?"
The book, So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality, (Jossey-Bass, 2005) is an inviting guided tour through the basics of the Christian life.
One reviewer described it as a Christian apologetics for our era.
Rienstra, a professor of English at Calvin College, doesn't disagree with that succinct summary.
"My editor and I were trying to create an introduction to Christianity that responded to concerns particularly urgent in our postmodern times," she says.
Those concerns, Rienstra says, include our human longing for transcendence, our desire for integrity in all parts of our lives and our need to find a way of thinking and living that makes sense in a bewildering marketplace of ideas and lifestyles.
The book is a departure from the traditional, rational argument for the Christianity, which remains important Rienstra says.
But, she adds, rational argumentation is not necessarily people's first concern these days.
"They don't want to be argued into certain propositions," she asserts. "They want to be drawn into a system of meaning and living. They want to meet God and be changed."
So Much More covers serious terrain.
There are chapters devoted to core beliefs of the Christian faith - transcendence, incarnation, sin, salvation and suffering. There are also chapters devoted to the lifelong practices of the Christian believer - prayer, reading the Bible, worship, community and service.
Rienstra tried throughout the book to function as a hospitable host.
"I tried to make the book personal," she says, "a gesture of welcoming friendship to the reader."
Rienstra hopes So Much More will appeal to Christians who are new or newly returned to the faith. She also hopes the book is substantial enough theologically to appeal to longtime believers.
"So many people who are coming to the faith right now," she says, "are doing so with virtually no religious education in their background. My fondest dream for the book is that churches will use it in their adult education programs, and that groups of new and seasoned Christians will be able to read it together and find that it has both comfort and challenge for people at different stages in their journeys."
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Acting out dreams ups risk of brain disease8 years, 8 months ago
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By Rich Hurd
New research suggests that people who physically act out their dreams are at higher risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
New research suggests that people who physically act out their dreams are at higher risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
During REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep, the muscles relax and do not move, but in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder people have episodes of excessive muscle activity, and essentially act out their dreams by punching, kicking, and etcetera.
Researchers studied 93 people with REM sleep disorder, but who had no signs or symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases. The average age of participants at the start of the five-year-long study was 65. Results showed that more than a quarter of participants were diagnosed with a neurodegenerative condition over the next five years. Fourteen developed Parkinson's disease, 7 developed a rare form of dementia called Lewy body dementia dementia, and 4 met clinical criteria for Alzheimer's disease. One participant developed multiple system atrophy, a rare disorder that affects movement, blood pressure and other body functions.
Using the results, the researchers estimated that patients of a similar age with idiopathic REM sleep disorder would have a more than a 50/50 chance of developing a neurodegenerative disease within the next 12 years.
The researchers concluded: "The risk of developing neurodegenerative disease in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder is substantial, with the majority of patients developing Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia."
Postuma RB, Gagnon JF, Vendette M, Fantinit ML, Massicotte-Marquez J. Montplaisie J. Quantifying the risk of neurodegenerative disease in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder. Neurology Published online before print December 24, 2008. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000340980.19702.6e


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To see just how much of the Core i7 CPU was being used by LLVMpipe, we used the Phoronix Test Suite to monitor the CPU usage when running OpenArena for four test runs at 1920 x 1080. We ran this test when using two cores, six cores, and then six cores with Hyper Threading. The Phoronix Test Suite was set to poll the average CPU usage across all available cores using the system_monitor PTS module.
To not any real surprise, the CPU usage was the highest with two cores when the average CPU usage wound up being 83.6%. With all six cores the CPU usage was 75.4% and then when Hyper Threading was flipped on it averaged out to 50.4%.
Even with the Core i7 970 "Gulftown" being a nearly $900 USD processor (NewEgg.com and Amazon.com), which is only outdone by the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition for now, the LLVMpipe performance still isn't up to the point you would want to use it for OpenGL gaming but it is certainly the best performance we have seen out of this open-source driver that heavily uses LLVM. With some games at some resolutions the speed was 30+ FPS, which does show that LLVMpipe has potential and that it is a much better alternative to Mesa's classic software rasterizer and Gallium3D's Softpipe driver, which would only run at a small fraction of the speed found with LLVMpipe.
These results also exhibit hope that once LLVMpipe is able to implement the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension and meets all the technical requirements for running a compositing window manager, that we can at least find an acceptable level of performance -- without chewing up an entire CPU -- in a composited environment with Compiz, KWin, and Mutter, which will become more important with the GNOME 3.0 Shell and also Canonical's Ubuntu Unity Desktop. This is important for providing a semi-decent out-of-the-box Linux desktop experience for scenarios where Linux graphics drivers are not yet available or other issues barring proper GPU acceleration.
It was also good to see that LLVMpipe is capable of scaling with multiple threads effectively and was an interesting experiment in general. Also, as would be expected, as the resolution increased, so did the efficiency of the per-core scaling. Coming up in the next few weeks will also be GCC vs. LLVM benchmarks on the Gulftown. If there are any other Linux (or BSD / OpenSolaris) tests you are interested in seeing from this 32nm 12-thread Intel processor, let us know.


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Anxiety and Stress Disorders
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I have had numerous symptoms ever since I became pregnant. I`m not pregnant now and they are still progressing. My daughter was born 2 months ago. I have been getting jitters at times,lower left swelling of the leg which just started, my pulse will start raising for no apparent reason, some trouble breathing at night mostly. This all started about a year ago. I have noticed that these symptoms mostly occur at night or when I am nervous or upset. Any suggestions on what might be causing this. The hospital just tells me I have anxiety attacks, but it seems like its something more. I have also had and EKG done and a stress test, both normal.
I would recommend that you see your primary care doctor to talk about these symptoms, and also consider seeing a mental health professional, such as a psychologist or counselor to help you figure out what is going on. Many people say it can't be "just" anxiety because I'm not a nervous person or the symptoms are too bad. But anxiety disorders are real diseases, and can produce very significant symptoms.
Take a look at the weblinks for the anxiety websites. You will see that anxiety can produce everything from chest pain, sweating, palpitations, shakiness and shortness of breath to abdominal pain and nausea. Anxiety disorders are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. Sometimes these can be short lived, but sometimes anxiety disorders can be chronic problems. The good news is there are excellent treatments - both medications and non-medications (usually a counseling technique called cognitive behavioral therapy, or a "thinking-acting" therapy).
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Nov 26, 2009
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a PG13
|Nice lead with a little gearless run above thin gear towards the top. Don't skip any gear ops. Should be attempted by a confident 9+ leader only. Gave it pg13 based on the difficulty of finding good gear in 1 spot. Is this right?
By Andy Hansen
From: Longmont, Colorado
Aug 8, 2010
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a R
|I would agree with Dmitriy. The gear is decent through the layback lower section... a #6 BD stopper (by the way, mine is stuck in the route... if you retrieve it, I'd like it back) and after that at a good stance you can get a yellow C3 in the crack off to the right of the route. From there it's pretty run out until a nice horizontal ledge unless you chuck a brass offset in one of the shallow cracks or trust a pretty dismal green C3. At the ledge a #1 C4 fits perfect and a .75 C4 fits nicely in a crack to the right of the upper crux (5.9+). Ledge is huge and very dirty but a good top out.
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I climbed up the rib using the side pulls on the right as well as the holds on the left side with a good rest on the ledge to the left of the alcove. Good gear to start but all I got was manky wires at the alcove. Then a healthy run-out to the horizontal for good pro. Wasps almost ate me alive on this one.
Climbing wasn't as good as I hoped.
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Jul 24, 2014
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The post here on the forums helped me solve my problems.
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This post is more of a reminder for me when I decide to finally remove my Windows partition on my laptop and reinstall Feisty on the entire hard drive. Don't want to have to hunt this down again.
Note: To all you Linux haters who want to use this as an example of why you won't switch to Linux….one word: Vista. How many of your peripherals didn't work after you upgraded? Nuff said.
Don't get me wrong…Microsoft programming pays my bills, but Linux programming and usage keeps my bank account happy :)


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Senate Passes House Version of Medical Marijuana Bill
In the floor debate preceding the final passage of the bill, senators sought to quell concern of the US Department of Justice prosecuting state employees for administering the program—something the Governor and regional DOJ officials had suggested was a possibility. Sen. Jerome Delvin (R-8, Richland) told legislators that "the feds haven't done anything, in any state" to stop the dispensing of medical marijuana.
Still, Sen. Pam Roach (R-31, Auburn) argued that the Kohl-Welles' legislation would create an "underground market, that exists today, but would be bigger and larger" if the bill becomes law. Sen. Mike Carrell (R-28, Lakewood) hit a similar note by arguing that the bill "has been perverted into a bill that's put the state on the brink of the legalization of marijuana."
Senators speaking in support of the legislation, including Sen. Debbie Regala (D-27, Tacoma), explained that the bill would fill in the "grey areas" that exist in current law and make it difficult for law enforcement officials to enforce who and where one can sell medical marijuana.
Not surprisingly, the eastside Republicans, who usually vote with the Democrats on social issues—including Sen. Steve Litzow (R-41, Mercer Island), Sen. Andy Hill (R-45, Redmond), Sen. Joe Fain (R-47, Redmond)—all voted in favor of the legislation.
Gregoire, who threatened to veto the bill late last week, released the following statement today:
I realize the value that medical marijuana has for patients and support the voter-approved initiative. I also agree with the intent of the Legislature to clarify ambiguity surrounding search and arrest as well as concerns around dispensaries and access. We need to create a system that works.
I asked the Legislature to work with me on a bill that does not subject state workers to risk of criminal liability. I am disappointed that the bill as passed does not address those concerns while also meeting the needs of medical marijuana patients.
I will review the bill to determine any parts that can assist patients in need without putting state employees at risk. No state employee should have to break federal law in order to do their job.


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Here's something that appeared in another audio magazine that I believe would also be the editorial position of Stereophile.
"As in all things audio, listeners should let their ears, not the laws of physics, be their guide."
Given the laws of physics can sometimes produce both right and wrong solutions in equal proportions (vented vs. sealed speaker enclosures for example or large vs. small driver diaphrams), how much do you agree with the statement?
On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being "not at all" and 10 being totally agree, please give your answer.
Or, if you wish to state you feel this is not the policy of Stereophile, enter that position separately.


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Southern rust was reported in several fields in Butler and Grundy counties late last week. Leaf samples were received by the ISU Plant Disease and Insect Clinic, and confirmations were made. Because common rust is widespread in cornfields in Iowa, it is important for farmers and agronomists to correctly distinguish between these two rusts, especially if a fungicide decision is to be made.
Southern rust versus common rust
Southern rust can develop rapidly under favor able conditions (Table 1), and foliar fungicides are often required to protect yield. The earlier during the grain fill period that southern rust occurs, the greater the impact it can have on yield. Although we see southern rust in Iowa in most growing seasons, it is usually only reported in mid- to late August as the crop nears maturity. The outbreak of southern rust in central Iowa is unusually early, grain fill has just started, and, therefore, this outbreak is of concern. Furthermore, weather conditions in central Iowa at this time are very conducive to disease development (Table 1).
Common rust rarely impacts yield because most hybrids have very good tolerance to the disease, and conditions during grain fill are often too warm for common rust disease development (Table 1). Thus, a fungicide application for common rust is not usually warranted to protect yield.
Hybrids vary in their tolerance to southern rust, so some fields will be more at risk than others.
Previous cropping history and percent crop residue do not increase risk since this pathogen survives in the south and spores are blown up to Iowa each growing season.
Foliar fungicides are very effective against southern rust, but timing is important, especially if weather is conducive for disease development; applications should be made as soon as possible after southern rust is identified in a field or on susceptible hybrids within the area in which the disease has been reported.
Update on Goss's wilt and leaf blight
Goss's leaf blight symptoms have been observed in our foliar product efficacy trials in southwest Iowa and central Iowa. Furthermore, ISU Extension and Outreach Field Agronomist Brian Lang reported Goss's leaf blight on drought-stressed corn in northeast Iowa. The ISU PDIC has also received several leaf samples with Goss's leaf blight. Farmers and agronomists are encouraged to continue to scout at risk fields for Goss's. Please see this ICM News article, "Tips for diagnosing Goss's leaf blight."


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After we proposed tracking Starbucks's roll out of Christmas products as a metric to gauge yearly Christmas Creep, we got a fair amount of comments saying they saw no problem with Christmas stuff coming out once Halloween was over. So, inside, a poll: at what point does Christmas Creep become acceptable holiday display?
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POLL: When Is Too Early For Christmas Creep?
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Texas Firefighters Continue Efforts in Panhandle
AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry today said firefighters from across Texas are joining the state-led effort to battle the Panhandle wildfires. Ten fires, which continue to be fueled by high winds and low humidity, are currently burning about 785,000 acres in the region.
"We remain focused on preventing new fires and containing existing fires," Perry said. "We made progress overnight in battling some of the fires, and even more firefighters and equipment are headed to the Panhandle to continue the fight. Fire departments from across Texas sent much-needed brush trucks, engine crews, tankers and command vehicles."
Fire departments from Texas communities have provided 35 brush trucks, 15 heavy fire engines, four water tankers and eight command vehicles, which contain communications equipment and serve as mobile emergency command posts. These add to the fleet of 28 aircraft, 54 bulldozer crews, and 17 heavy fire engines the state has deployed against the Panhandle blazes. The state is fighting the blazes from the air with the largest helicopter in the nation, which holds 3,000 gallons of fire retardant. Twenty-nine states have provided support.
Perry will travel to the fire-ravaged region on Thursday, where he will meet with local officials and emergency personnel.
In the past 24 hours, Texas has responded to 207 new fires which burned nearly 24,000 acres. Firefighting aircraft have flown 1,710 missions and dropped nearly 230,000 gallons of fire retardant. Those efforts are credited with saving about 112 homes.
The Panhandle fires have claimed 11 lives and injured three fire fighters since Sunday. There are no new reports of destroyed homes or evacuations. Early estimates suggest up to 10,000 livestock have also been lost.
"We extend prayers of comfort to the families of the victims of this tragedy," Perry said. "They remain in Anita's and my thoughts."
Since Dec. 26, more than 10,572 separate wildfires in Texas have burned more than 3.7 million acres and destroyed 397 homes.


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Perfect Pitch
The incident could have been a disaster. But for John Axelrod, it became just one more sales opportunity.
Axelrod, a young conductor and composer, had been back in his hometown of Houston for a few months pushing what he claimed was the future of symphonic music. Orchestra X, he called it, and to anyone who'd listen he'd explain, often in excruciating detail, just how he was going to roll Beethoven over. He'd tell them how he was going to break the chains of tradition that had shackled classical music to outmoded approaches, approaches that made it all but impossible for members of his generation, the much-maligned Generation X, to fully appreciate the genius of orchestral works. He'd tell them that he was someone to listen to.
At the moment, though, Axelrod was the one doing the listening. Comfortably ensconced front row center in Jones Hall, he was taking in a Houston Symphony performance of Beethoven's Eroica. Dressed in a navy jacket and tie, he turned his green eyes heavenward, looking for all the world like an Enlightenment-era saloniste. Then -- Brrrip! Brrrip! It was the muffled chirp of a cellular phone. His cellular phone. Quickly, Axelrod dove to silence the offending item, ducking below the line of chair backs, as evident to all as an ostrich burying its head in the sand. There he remained, cowering. Had he intended to steal attention from the Houston Symphony, he couldn't have planned it better.
But Axelrod's performance was not over. As the Eroica's first movement came to a close and its funeral march began, his breath shortened. His face went pale; cold sweat broke out on his palms. A pain shot through the left side of his chest. Still hunched over, Axelrod scooted past a row of patrons, slipped out a side door and onto the sidewalk, whipped out the offending phone and dialed 911. He paced back and forth, anguished.
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"I can't believe it," he announced. He clapped his hands to his forehead, then gestured wildly. "Here I am trying to support classical music, and look what I've done!" He repeated this to various bystanders, adding, by way of explanation, "I'm starting an orchestra!"
Axelrod was having, the paramedics would later explain, not a heart attack, but a panic attack, one brought on by acute embarrassment. But "I had a heart attack!" was too good a line to let go of; it guaranteed a sympathetic audience, and so Axelrod, a king of the well-turned testimonial, used it repeatedly when recounting the tale. He used it, for example, the following night when, after returning to hear the Eroica through to the end, he strode past security and knocked on Houston Symphony Conductor Christoph Eschenbach's door.
Most people guilty of a cellular faux pas might have slunk off quietly. Not Axelrod. He wanted to apologize, he told Eschenbach, for his dramatic exit the preceding day. Eschenbach looked at him, faintly surprised. "I didn't notice," the conductor said. Axelrod, however, would not be deterred.
"I had a heart attack!" Axelrod said, and so the pitch began. The bit about the cellular phone disappeared, replaced with talk about the high stress of putting together an orchestra. The funeral march became a major protagonist, as Axelrod described the way the pounding music caught him up in a sweep of emotion so intense he could no longer breathe. In his words, the Eroica's funeral march nearly caused his own funeral. "Oh! I was just OH!" he said, gazing upward to indicate his loss for words.
As Axelrod soliloquized, Eschenbach could do little but smile and nod, and smile and nod he did. Axelrod remained resolutely earnest, but it was clear that he was selling one more member of Houston's musical establishment on John Axelrod, passionate music lover. And in so doing, he was selling one more member of Houston's musical establishment on the possibilities inherent in Orchestra X. As it happened, this was not the first time Eschenbach had heard one of Axelrod's ardent speeches. And like so many others, the maestro had been quite won over. Though he had never seen Axelrod conduct, Eschenbach would say later, he was certain that the young man's new orchestra would be a success.
That classical music is perceived to be in a state of semi-crisis is not exactly news. Though some studies show that the average age of the classical music lover has remained constant over several decades, of late, national music critics have begun beating their chests in anguish over the graying of the symphony audience and the need to recruit younger patrons to ensure the art form's survival. And survival is nowhere more immediate an issue than in Houston, where the city's leading exponent of classical music, the Houston Symphony, has been floundering in financial and artistic uncertainty.
That may be one reason why the teachers, musicians and other professionals the 31-year-old Axelrod has been proselytizing on behalf of Orchestra X can ill afford to dismiss him, and why curiosity about the nascent orchestra has reached a fever pitch among music aficionados. Orchestra X could, after all, signify the new approach the classical world thinks it desperately needs. But to work, the orchestra will have to be carefully positioned -- as a contribution, rather than a threat, to Houston's existing arts organizations, as an outlet for respectable musical talent and as a hot ticket for fickle twenty- and thirtysomethings.
Axelrod has proven to be a master of such positioning. Before striking so much as a single chord, Orchestra X had the cachet of the latest lounge club, commanding a degree of hype unheard of for most arts organizations. Chronicle society columnist Shelby Hodge cottoned on to it early ("I'm officially hip!" Axelrod yelped when his name appeared in her column on the downtown Swank Lounge), and so did Maxine Mesinger. The Paper, a slick gazette for the younger moneyed, fawned over what it dubbed "The X Factor." The new, ultrahip Spy Lounge will do a benefit for the orchestra in the spring, and plans are in the works for another shindig at Solero, which Esquire recently dubbed one of the hottest new restaurants in America. La Strada, Armando's and the Palace Cafe advertised in Orchestra> X's first concert program. So did the outre boutique Dare Ware.
On the art-world side, the Alley Theatre burped up a free computer for the as-yet-unproven organization, and Houston Ballet conductor Ermanno Florio agreed to advise artistically. From his apartment-cum-office at downtown's chichi Hogg Palace, Axelrod had charmed, it seemed, the whole of the Theater District -- and all before throwing his first concert.
While timing has no doubt been to Axelrod's advantage, good timing, as any first-rate salesman will tell you, is rarely accidental. John Axelrod is a first-rate salesman, one with the natural wiles to match his conviction. In fact, some say his acumen rivals that of his distant uncle, Houston's erstwhile style king Bob Sakowitz. Working on his oft-stated premise that "Beethoven's never been a problem. It's the way Beethoven is being presented that's the problem," Axelrod says that Orchestra X will seek to develop new audiences by presenting classical music in an "interactive, multicultural, multidisciplinary, almost confrontational environment that still preserves the integrity of the music." To that end, Axelrod plans to stage La Boheme in English in a local cafe and conduct a concert of orchestral dance music in an outdoor, Lollapalooza-style setting.
Orchestra X has also had the advantage of beginning with the one thing former National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Jane Alexander says most arts organizations sorely lack: a business plan. Orchestra X's bulges with details that carry it through the end of the century. The plan profiles the orchestra's supposedly joystick-dependent target audience, and the orchestra's presentation adheres single-mindedly to that profile. In fact, the only thing the target audience might find lacking in Orchestra X is the slightest sense of irony.
All the other demographic bases, though, are covered: Because "tolerance," according to Axelrod's research, "is the third most important issue" for Generation Xers, the first concert, held last Su>nday, featured music composed by victims of the Holocaust as well as the Theme from Schindler's List. Because Xers comprise, in Axelrod's words, the "global, why-can't-we-all-get-along, Benetton generation," a rainbow coalition of high school students (the professed plan called for one African-American, one Asian, one Hispanic and one Jewish kid, but in the end Axelrod fell at least an Asian short of his quota) read poetry written by children in concentration camps, then told the audience their visions for the future. Xers demand interactivity; therefore audience members could write their own message for the future on little cards to be deposited in a time capsule. And because Xers are "involved in substantive causes" (or perhaps so that Axelrod could obtain the rights to perform Schindler's List) the concert "benefited" Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation.
In fact, all three concerts in the orchestra's first season "benefit" charities -- among them MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts) and the AIDS Foundation Houston. But that doesn't mean that ticket buyers can rest easy knowing part of their $15 ticket price goes to a good cause. "I thought, why should the concerts serve as vehicles only for corporate sponsorship?" Axelrod says when asked how much of the proceeds the charities will receive. "Why shouldn't they also provide visibility for charitable causes worthy of the attention of our target audiences?" He regards this as an innovative idea: The charities don't receive money, they receive attention; they get marketing -- something which, to Axelrod at least, is worth a lot. And Orchestra X, Axelrod believes, benefits as well, because association with charitable causes will somehow make classical music seem more relevant to the lives of young adults. This is a "win-win situation," he notes, and Orchestra X is all about win-win situations.
When Axelrod explains all this, he can be quite persuasive. In the face of his enthusiasm, he is difficult to turn down, and even more di>fficult to shut up. It's as if he has a microchip implanted in his brain that determines which carefully crafted pitch to use when, and someone has nudged the control lever to overdrive. To Orchestra X's musicians, accustomed to conductors whose prowess far outweighs Axelrod's, Axelrod is humble: "I will be a student until the day I die." To the wealthy mothers (read: potential donors) of Axelrod's high school friends, he is patiently Socratic: "You know the musical Rent? The Hair of the '90s? Well, you know that the musical is based on La Boheme, right? Well, Rent is coming to Houston in March. And we're doing La Boheme ... in February! We're doing the opera based on the musical based on the opera!" To corporate reps he gives a bulleted list of the benefits of buying in, including the chance to "demonstrate to the community that by helping one arts organization you help them all."
In an art world where marketing is seldom top-notch, Axelrod's talent has not gone unnoticed. His name has been bandied about in high-level meetings at places such as DiverseWorks, and he already sits on the board of TemplO, a new group that has taken over the former Zocalo Theater. These organizations may indeed have something to learn from him. At the concerts, galas, operas and high-dollar restaurants he so often frequents, Axelrod follows not the charity's rule of fundraising -- beg until you can beg no more -- but the businessman's: If you don't look like you need it, you'll probably get it.
Of course, great marketing and great artistry don't always come in the same package, and perhaps that's why there are those in whom Axelrod inspires violent skepticism. "We're all out there hustling," said one arts administrator after meeting him. "It's just that we're not all so obvious about it."
When John Axelrod attended a conductor's convention in California in 1994, the problem of how to build new audiences dominated the discussion. But Axelrod wasn't convinced that a solution would emerge from the classical musi>c establishment. "I became very aware of the fact that the conductors just did not seem to have the vision," he says. At the time, Axelrod was just beginning his own career as a conductor, but he had plenty of experience to which the other conductors could not lay claim -- experience that might make him uniquely suited for the job of selling classical music to the masses.
In fact, Orchestra X has the potential to resolve a conflict that has tormented Axelrod since childhood: the classical versus the popular. As a promising pianist with perfect pitch, he was urged early on to make the demanding commitment required to be a virtuoso. But you couldn't be Billy Joel or Elton John -- two of Axelrod's heroes -- if you became a classical soloist. Axelrod has always been torn between the rock concert and the concerto. "It's popular music's ability to communicate that interests me," he says.
In 1983, when Leonard Bernstein visited Houston for the premiere of his opera A Quiet Place, the conductor of one of the ensembles Axelrod played with introduced him. In his own career, Bernstein exemplified the combination of the popular and the classical, and Axelrod was fascinated by the man, whom he says took him under his wing. He still has the clipping from the Chronicle that tells of Bernstein, the Houston Symphony's then-conductor Sergiu Commissiona and "high school student John Axelrod" dining at the Lancaster. Bernstein, Axelrod says, told his mother that her son should become a conductor, thereby planting a seed that remained dormant for years.
Instead of attending a conservatory after high school, Axelrod chose to study music at Harvard, the alma mater of his father, who had gone on to become a successful stockbroker. Still, he didn't abandon popular music -- one of his rock groups, the Rhythm Method, won a Battle of the Bands contest that landed them on the Today show. After college, Axelrod went to the West Coast to work for a music publishing company and soon became a sought-after A&R man, discovering the Smashing Pumpkins and shaping successful careers for other artists. Russell Ziecker, a music-industry colleague who still lives in Los Angeles, remembers that at one point Axelrod negotiated a deal with Capitol Records, then didn't show up for work, popping up instead at RCA, which had made him a better offer overnight. "He burned a couple of bridges, in typical John fashion," Ziecker says, chuckling. What's typical John fashion? "He got the best deal for John."
After a succession of jobs, including stints as a Star Search talent scout, a manager for bands such as Jellyfish and director of the Robert Mondavi Wine and Food Center in Costa Mesa, where he planned special events, Axelrod's thoughts turned more and more to conducting, which he saw as a "fiscally responsible" way to make music. "I wasn't creating," he says. "I was consuming. I ate four-course meals and drank wine all day."
The question was how, in midcareer, could someone become a conductor? One answer, if you have the money, is to hire a professional to teach you. Axelrod had the money, and he hired Edward Cumming, then assistant conductor of the Pacific Symphony, to give him private lessons. Cumming says Axelrod, desperate to make up for lost time, made astonishingly rapid progress. Eventually he quit his job with Robert Mondavi and took several conducting workshops. The workshops gave Axelrod something Cumming couldn't -- hands-on experience. He conducted youth symphonies and several lower- to midlevel European orchestras ("the kind that make those $3.99 CDs," one musician observes), a few of which invited him back for professional gigs.
Despite his very real and numerous accomplishments -- he's even composed and recorded a chamber operetta set to 19th-century romantic poetry -- Axelrod isn't above a little resume padding. For example, he lists Leonard Bernstein as a composition teacher; asked about this, he says, "we talked about composition." Axelrod has a quality that's somewhere between slick and slippery, not least of all d>ue to his overwhelming sense of his own innocence. Yes, he uses his grandmother's handicapped parking tag, he once explained when caught doing so -- but only when there are plenty of spaces left for the truly disabled, and only when he, John Axelrod, is really in a hurry.
Ultimately, the would-be conductor's career choices were limited: He could endure a long apprenticeship, go the academic route and become a professor, or he could start his own ensemble and conduct right away. Having watched musicians from the sidelines long enough, Axelrod chose not to wait. While working in Europe, he slowly fleshed out his game plan for Orchestra X. Houston seemed like an obvious place to give it a try. It has music schools at Rice and the University of Houston that he knew could provide musicians. The arts community appeared stable. The market for classical music did not, Axelrod claims, seem as saturated as in other major cities. And perhaps most significantly, Axelrod's family and friends are here. It was home.
In the Orchestra X loft at the Hogg Palace, Axelrod and his assistant Marianne Mayeux, who looks and talks like a film noir version of Jennifer Jason Leigh, are mulling over T-shirt designs. Boxes of Orchestra X koozies have been dumped on the floor, and a sample Orchestra X cigar clipper sits nearby. The Orchestra X mouse pads and Orchestra X temporary tattoos are on order. Everything is white on black. The phone -- 225-ORCX -- rings constantly.
In the Orchestra X logo, the "X" is formed by a fist holding up a cross-shaped lug nut wrench, looking for all the world like a piece of Soviet Realist propaganda. Someone suggests that the T-shirt might simply feature the hand with the wrench. "Yeah, well, right," says John, who believes that Orchestra X could soon serve as a blueprint for similar organizations around the country. "Because eventually the wrench will be like the Nike swoosh, right? But I don't think we're there yet."
Axelrod wears a pair of worn leather flip-flops, jeans and a fine-gauge tan sweater. His skin has a soft, blemish-free luster. Framed prints and drawings hang on the wall behind him, and in one corner of the room is tucked a straight-backed throne of an antique armchair and two chairs of Italian leather. "Don't live the life you planned," Axelrod is fond of saying, "live the life that's waiting for you." He is every inch the scion of wealth, with an aura that makes potential Orchestra X sponsors believe that he can deliver not just any audience, but the right audience. As he told one bright former debutante who came for a job interview, "Your father and your mother, and my father and my mother, are the ones responsible for this cultural landscape that we are blessed to enjoy. So it's our obligation to make sure that this cultural stability that our parents have set up for us exists for us and for generations to come."
Axelrod's grandmother, Dora, was one of the five "blond Baum sisters" (their life story, according to John, has been optioned by Joan Collins). The sisters, who grew up in San Antonio, married into prominent Houston families -- one, Ray, became a Weingarten, another, Ann, a Sakowitz. John's father, Jerome, was on the founding board of the Children's Museum, and is still involved in several Jewish causes. "My family is supportive," Axelrod says, "but this is not a vanity production. This is not about a privileged kid going to his family and saying, give me some money. I told them I didn't want to do it that way; I wanted to do it my own way." Yet his pool of donors does include family members (altogether he's raised, he says, $38,000 of the $76,000 he needs to supplement revenue from ticket and merchandise sales).
And of course, connections are often more valuable than cash. For the board of Orchestra X, Axelrod has tapped chums from St. John's School, the elite private school he attended growing up. Board member Marika Rudy and her husband, board president Kerry Rudy (son of developer Alan and boutique owner Janice, and John's former pledge maste>r in the Jewish fraternity Sigma Alpha Rho), both adore John, his concept and his business plan. "I think his planning has gotten him a lot of supporters among men," says Kerry. In an effort to provide "diversity," Kerry has helped persuade folks such as Mickey Leland's widow, Alison Brisco, and Texas Commerce Bank executive Richard Ramirez -- people with plenty more to offer, of course, than just diversity -- to join the board. "I have connections, so I just set up meetings and let John do the rest," Kerry says. "He's just infectious."
"John has enthusiasm 500 times over," gushes Marika. "He really knows and believes there is a need for this. He's so enthusiastic about it, how can you say no?"
But for every helpful person to whom Axelrod has easy entree, there is someone such as Sharon Roeske Haynes, whom he approached cold. Haynes is the part-owner of Solero restaurant, one of Axelrod's haunts and an Orchestra X supporter. "He was so overwhelming at first," Haynes says. "He was so happy to meet me and he was talking, talking, talking and I wasn't really sure if he wanted something from me." After seeing some Orchestra X literature and reading about Axelrod's background, Haynes, who is an opera fan, began seriously thinking of ways to help. "He was very persistent. He'd come in here all the time. He made himself known to me and my partners. I think he's very good at self-exposure." But, she adds, "the more I saw, the more I realized that he was committed and serious about this whole project."
Among the pieces of literature that Haynes saw was Orchestra X's direct-mail debut. A sheaf of papers elegantly nestled in a four-winged, die-cut folder, the olive and black brochure is a marketing masterpiece, something that many older, richer arts organizations would give their eyeteeth for. Against a backdrop of poetic images (a railroad track for the Holocaust concert, a row of '50s bathing beauties for that requisite retro non sequitur), the concept of Orchestra X is sandwiched between pithy, relevant media quotes. There is a fundraising plea -- "I want to personally thank you for helping us help Houston" -- followed by Axelrod's looping signature and punctuated with his sycophantic mug shot.
This brochure held a particular surprise for me. When it arrived, I found my name on a dubiously long list of "cool people who care," alongside conductors, musicians and other supposed supporters. I was startled to see my name there, since Axelrod hadn't asked to use it. True, I had helped point him in the right direction a couple of times, and having known of him since he was the pianist for a performing arts camp I attended as a child, I even paid $25 to attend an Orchestra X benefit -- a far cry from being an official supporter. Still, I felt a bit curmudgeonly being cross with him about the appearance of my name, particularly since his whole body was wagging with a puppy-like pride about the mailer, a pride little dampened by the fact that he and Mayeux had to collate and assemble 4,500 of the pieces themselves. "I didn't think you would mind!" he said, then asked immediately, "What do you think of the brochure?"
There are some professions that require an ego that has been tried by fire. Conducting is one of them. A conductor, after all, has chosen an entire orchestra of highly trained people as his instrument. He must have not only musical knowledge, but strength of will. Charisma helps, as does conviction. In short, as one Orchestra X musician put it, "There haven't been too many conductors who haven't been megalomaniacs."
It's the second rehearsal of the nascent orchestra, and the string sections are working on After the Rain, a challenging piece by top British composer Barry Guy. Axelrod, wearing a black turtleneck and jeans, is deeply engrossed in what he's doing, and concertmaster Zachary Isaac Carrettin makes a few suggestions when things aren't going well. The suggestions are encouraged -- Orchestra X, says Axelrod, is supposed to be a new experience not just for the audience, but for the players as well. They're asked to voice their opinions. Tonight, the musicians rehearsing in the party room of the Hogg Palace are casually dressed and quiet. The buzz Axelrod created has allowed him to get the top players from the Rice University Shepherd School and the University of Houston Moores School of Music, and though some of them have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, they are working hard.
During a break, one of the musicians grooves out on the room, with its zebra-print rug and voluptuous chaise longues. "This place is hip," he says. "I mean, just look at this place." He likes the whole idea of Orchestra X, though he doesn't like the name. "It sounds like a Nation of Islam orchestra," he says. He is keen on Axelrod's marketing ability and his "whole image as a conductor," even. "He's not a good conductor, but that doesn't matter. He's humble about that. I was more impressed with him tonight than I was at the first rehearsal. Besides, it's hard to be a great conductor. It takes years." Later, the musician, who asked to remain anonymous, called to say that, for the record, he had revised his opinion once more. "I found him to be quite a brilliant guy," he said. "He took a lot of things into consideration that perhaps I thought that he didn't."
But the musician admitted that he's not sure of Axelrod's motives -- "It makes me think, what is his ultimate goal? It's going to be his name in the paper down the road, not ours."
Axelrod hates this idea, this notion that promoting Orchestra X is the same as promoting himself, and he says so out loud and frequently. "Orchestra X is not about me," he repeats, emphatically enough to short-circuit his microchip. "It's about the music." There is no reason, of course, why Orchestra X can't be about both. And indeed, all indications are that it is about both. The general consensus is that Axelrod has selected ambitious programming for his orchestra's first season, and as Christoph Eschenbach notes, "I see it right away if someone is a good musician or not. He is." But at the same time, for all his talk about his selfless desire "to make a difference in this city," there's little doubt that Axelrod has exhibited a particular genius for promotion -- not just for his orchestra, but for himself.
But Axelrod will not permit this suggestion. "I don't have to put my name on the front of the program: Artistic director, conductor, John Axelrod. I hate that -- I mean, whose ego are you trying to satisfy? The only place I need to put my name is to say, 'Thanks for coming, John.' " His hand swirls in a gesture of signing his name. "There will be my biography there for people who want to see it."
Shortly thereafter, a UH architecture student drops by the Hogg Palace with the program cover for Orchestra X's first concert. It's a bright yellow solarized photo of a woman playing a television set as if it were a cello. In one of the many moments of serendipity in Axelrod's life, he found the image "waiting for him" while attending a gala in the UH architecture school building. It was on display, part of a class project for the Houston Symphony's young artists competition, and the designer just happened to be nearby. The image had been too cool for the symphony, the student said, but he was happy to let it be used by Orchestra X.
Looking at the program cover, Axelrod is excited, enthusiastic, thrilled. What he holds in his hand is evidence that his concept is on the brink of becoming a reality. But it's also evidence of something else: that there is, perhaps inevitably, a gap between a sales pitch and reality. For there, underneath "inaugural season" and above "Orchestra X" are five words: "John Axelrod, Artistic Director, Conductor.
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