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On December 12th Berklee College of Music hosted a show (broadcast live for Sirius Canada) dedicated to the music of Canadian artists - rapper k-os and rockers The New Pornographers were billed as the headliners. The Canadian music scene has been on indie radars for a while now, and this show proved that the attention has been well deserved. The show began with performances by Canadian Berklee students, and while all the students showed truly stunning talent, one young woman was a standout. Fiddler Ivonne Hernandez played with heart and vigor - her fiddling was rich and complex and her love of the music apparent. Judging from these performances, the students certainly have bright futures ahead of them.
On December 1, 1981 the first AIDS (SIDA in several languages) diagnosis was made. Today, in rememberance of that date of diagnosis, is World AIDS Day 2005. Before that science had provided no explanation for a rapidly increasing death. By 1986 donated blood has been routinely screened for HIV. In a practice of questionable morals and rationale, the Red Cross would not accept blood donations from persons who had engaged in homosexual acts (some chapters have changed this practice). Since 198,7 and the first United Nations AIDS program sponsored World AIDS Day, awareness become greater, treatments have become stronger, but the mystery of HIV/AIDS still remains unsolved.