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Betty Jean Payton Hamilton was in Eminence running routine errands on May 21 when she suffered a life-altering accident.
The 76-year old New Castle resident had been to the bank and the grocery store, and stopped in at the pawn shop to chat with relatives.
Hamilton then went to Southern States where she was going to grab some gardening plants.
Music on Main is this Friday night. The City of Eminence wants to invite everyone to attend. This is a night full of fellowship, food, fun and live music. The live music will be provided by another local band, the Sugarfoot Band! The night will start at 5:30 with a great selection of food — Eminence Christian Church will have a fish fry and Wesley Morrison will have some Hot Diggity Dawgs! The live band will take the stage at 7, and will play until 11. There will also be some fun for the kids.
When the drafters of Kentucky's constitution wrote the section on special legislative sessions more than a century ago, they gave the governor the authority to call them and set the agenda, but left it up to the General Assembly to decide what, if anything, should become law.
With that in mind, Governor Beshear last week formally called legislators to return to Frankfort on June 15. Not surprisingly, his first priority is overcoming a billion-dollar shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins in July.
In the past the City of Pleasureville has had no luck in retaining a police officer. They complain there is not enough "action" in Pleasureville. Since the city cannot afford to pay overtime, an officer would only be allowed to work 40 hours. That leaves 128-hours per week the town is not covered. We have more protection day and night when we don't have an officer; through the Kentucky State Police and the Henry County Sheriff's Office. There are only three women at our Commission meetings that complain of not having an officer.
Memorial Day is a day set aside for us as Americans to remember those who have fought and died for our country and I would like to thank all the men and women who have fought and died for our country, and I would like to thank all the men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country over the years.
September Tingle and her family's all-terrain vehicles are the focus of neighborhood grievances in the Castle Creek subdivision south of New Castle.
In May, a handful of residents came to the New Castle City Commission to air their complaints. At the June meeting, both sides of the argument were represented and packed the meeting room. Tingle said she was unaware the ATVs were considered to be such a problem.
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Notifying Eminence residents of special meetings, events or important alerts could become easier after a move by the city council Monday night.
In a 4-2 vote, the council voted to contract with OneCall Now for a system similar to what the county government and both school districts use to notify residents and parents of emergencies and other situations.
People the world over are governed by rules and regulations – far too many in my humble opinion. The ones that irk me the most are those aimed at protecting us from our own actions – like the mandatory seatbelt law, or, in many states, the mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists. I know, I know – many of these laws save lives. But I believe folks ought to have the right to act unwisely in matters affecting only themselves. The Bill of Rights should have had a clause to the affect that people have the right to be dumb about their own welfare if they choose.
I recently saw where the HCHS senior prom and the EHS prom were held in Louisville. My question is why couldn't the proms be held at their respective high school gyms?
When I went to school, the high school gym was a suitable place for the senior prom, but it seems the grown ups are sending the seniors the wrong message by saying that the seniors are better than the seniors who came before them like myself.
I hope everyone will come to their senses and start holding the senior proms at the high school gyms again.
He is the first in his family to graduate from high school, and became a naturalized citizen only last year.
Brian Dong, of Eminence, emigrated from the Fu Zhou province in China with his parents, Mei Chen and Xiao Dong, in 1997. He was just six years old.
"We traveled from place-to-place," he said. "I went to different schools until I was in fifth grade."
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Michael De Leon
Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.
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By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs San Antonio Spurs' Matt Bonner is at the forefront of the CBA negotiations as he serves as the vice president of the NBPA Executive Committee and as such, he is a wealth of knowledge in this situation. But representing the players in an otherwise delicate issue carries a large burden […] [Read More]
Bonner's humor shines through
By Trevor Zickgraf, Project Spurs Some of us here at Project Spurs have called for the end of Matt Bonner's run as a member of the San Antonio Spurs, but one thing that's certain is if the Spurs did ship Bonner elsewhere is they'd lose quite the character. Exhibit A is his "Coach B" series […] [Read More]
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By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs San Antonio Spurs forward and VP of the player's association Matt Bonner recently spoke with Toronto's Eric Smith of Fan 590 on the current NBA lockout. In the interview Bonner said there hasn't been much movement on either side, the owners want give-backs from the players to cover 100% of […] [Read More]
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By Paul Garcia, Project Spurs Even in the midst of an NBA lockout, there are still some NBA players out there doing what they can to make a difference in the lives of those in their community's and around the world. One of those players is San Antonio Spurs' Matt Bonner who will be hosting […] [Read More]
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Senior newcomer Ian Burris Jr. kicked a game-winning 30-yard field goal in overtime as Hillside handed New Bern its first home loss since 2011, 27-24.
For the first time in three consecutive season openers Hillside beat the Bears. The winner of the Hillside-New Bern game twice in the past three seasons has gone on to win the state 4-A championship.
Hillside won it all in 2010 after beating New Bern in the East finals. New Bern won the state championship after beating Hillside in here in the 2012 opener and lost in the state semifinals after beating Hillside in Durham in 2011.
Senior receiving star Trevion Thompson caught two touchdown passes from first-time Hillside starting quarterback Nas Forte-Ferguson and New Bern quarterback Michael Hughes countered with a touchdown and two touchdown passes to Theron Noble.
Hillside avenged last year's 40-20 loss at New Bern, and its 27-19 defeat to the Bears in 2011. The mini-rivalry began in 2010 when Hillside knocked off New Bern, 12-7, in the 4A Eastern Regional Finals.
"We had a chip on our shoulder from the past couple years," Thompson said. "In the offseason, we worked hard. Our seniors want to go out with a bang, so we push each other everyday in practice."
"Winning the first game was one of many goals (my players) set," Hillside coach Antonio King said. "The team that's won this game has done pretty well the last three years."
New Bern kicker Josh Htoo knotted the game at 24-24 as time expired in regulation.
Hughes scored on a four-yard run to give New Bern a 21-17 advantage with five minutes left in regulation. Three minutes later, Thompson scampered down the left sideline for a 49-yard touchdown reception with two minutes to go.
On New Bern's final offensive possession of regulation, Hughes dashed 66 yards down to Hillside's 5.
The Bears had to settle for a field goal.
"We thought we had it, but just ran out of gas," said Hughes. "It went their way today, but we will bounce back. We will just learn from our mistakes, polish ourselves and be ready to come out next week."
Hillside struck first with an 80-yard touchdown pass to Thompson, following a missed 20-yard field goal by Htoo.
The Bears drove to the Hornets' 3-yard line after Hughes completed a 32-yard pass to Diondre Poole.
Three plays later, New Bern's offense was held to a field goal attempt. Htoo booted his kick right, and on the next Hillside play, Hornets' quarterback Nas Forte-Ferguson launched a bomb into the arms of Thompson.
New Bern, which recovered two fumbles in the first half, capitalized on a Hillside miscue. Sam Thomas falling on a fumble.
Hughes later tossed his first of two touchdown passes to Theron Noble.
Donte Thomas-Williams put the Hornets on top at halftime when he punched the ball in the end zone on a 1-yard run with a little more than two minutes remaining in the second quarter.
Noble caught a pair of 27-yard touchdown passes for New Bern. Thompson caught six passes for 163 yards and Thomas-Williams ran for 106 yards for the Hornets.
"This win feels amazing," Williams said. "We are two hard teams fighting against each other. Everybody played their hearts out. It was the little things that won this game."
NOTES — Hillside hasn't had an effective placekicker the last several seasons. In preseason camp, King called Burris his new "weapon" and the transfer from Riverside who'd never played high school football before, came through in the clutch. "My secret weapon kicked two good field goals," King said. "Their quarterback (Hughes) gave us a tough time. We needed it."


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Biomedical Interventions: Antiretroviral Therapy as an HIV Prevention Strategy
HIV-1 Treatment as Prevention: The Good, the Bad, and the Challenges
The current findings on the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on preventing HIV are analyzed and the benefits and implementation challenges are discussed in this article. The authors state that ART as a prevention method will be key to future programs, but more needs to be understood before it is universally rolled out. For example, more research needs to be conducted exploring how the male and female genital tracts and rectal mucosal tissue are affected by ART. HIV-1 replication continues in these areas despite viral suppression in the blood, which affects transmission. In addition, drug resistance is another concern if more individuals are to be on ART. Observational studies in serodiscordant couples, community-level ecological studies, and mathematical modeling demonstrate solid findings in favor of ART as a prevention method, but limitations still need to be addressed. As programs are implemented, questions pertaining to how to increase HIV and CD4 testing to identify those most in need, as well providing optimal treatment during the early stages of HIV, will need to be clarified.
Retention in HIV Care between Testing and Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review
A review of existing literature was conducted to explore the attrition rates in the continuum of care between when individuals test positive for HIV to linking to care and treatment services. People living with HIV (PLHIV) are lost at various points along this continuum and understanding the reasons behind this loss is vital in improving health outcomes of PLHIV. The systematic review included peer-reviewed literature as well as conference abstracts that studied patient retention between HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors defined three different stages: the first being from HIV testing to obtaining CD4 count results, the second from not eligible for ART to accessing pre-ART care until eligible, the third is ART eligible to initiating ART. Twenty-eight articles and abstracts were included in the review: twenty studied only one stage, six addressed two stages, and two addressed all three stages. The median proportion of patients retained in stage 1 was 59 percent (35 to 88 percent), stage 2 was 46 percent (31 to 95 percent), and stage three was 68 percent (14 to 86 percent). Therefore, based on this review, there are great challenges in following healthy PLHIV to ensure initiation to care and treatment services that could span a long period of time. A limitation to the review was the wide variation in how studies defined and measured entry points to care and treatment. It is recommended that researchers standardize language to allow the public health community to generalize across studies.
Is Expanded HIV Treatment Preventing New Infections? Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Sexual Risk Behaviors in the Developing World
The review explores the link between antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and risky sexual behaviors. Eight cross-sectional and nine observational cohort studies were included in the review, all of which were conducted in developing countries. All of the studies, except one, found that there was a decrease in sexual risk-taking after ART initiation. The authors note that the majority of patients on ART decrease their reported risky sexual behaviors after treatment, but a sizable minority still engage in risky behaviors. The patients that engage in risky behaviors have common characteristics, including their type of partner (causal, spouse, seroconcordant), desire for children, psychosocial factors (depression, drug use), and higher-risk populations (men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs), which need to be addressed in behavior change programs within the treatment setting. A limitation in these studies is that patients on treatment have access to resources that others may not such as risk-reduction counseling, support groups, and ongoing care, which encourages them to make more healthful sexual decisions. Using ART as a prevention method is a viable option, but limitations and challenges should not be ignored.
Antiretroviral Therapy Refusal Among Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Adults
South Africa's treatment goal in the national strategic plan is to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) to at least 80 percent of treatment-eligible clients. It is necessary to understand the challenges in expanding treatment to those who are eligible, including those who refuse treatment, to reach this goal. Included in the study were adults who tested positive for HIV at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Soweto and were eligible for treatment based on CD4 counts. There were 7,287 clients who presented for voluntary counseling and testing, and 2,562 clients (35 percent) tested positive. Of those who tested positive, 743 (29 percent) were eligible to start treatment but 148 (20 percent) refused. It was found through multiple logistic regression that those who refused were more likely to be single and to have active tuberculosis compared to those who accepted treatment. Social workers recorded the reasons for refusal and the most sited "feeling healthy" followed by unable to disclose status, drug side effects, unable to adhere to drugs, cultural beliefs, and stigma. Increasing voluntary counseling and testing, drug availability, and reducing cost of drugs are not the only factors in expanding treatment. Promoting ART as a life-saving and safe method will be necessary to encourage all eligible individuals to accept treatment.
B.C.'s Street-smart Strategy to Treat HIV—No Matter Who Has It
This news article discusses a new initiative being piloted in Canada's British Columbia province called "Seek and Treat." Using health workers working on the streets, this ambitious project will focus on reaching populations that have been traditionally difficult to reach, such as sex workers and injecting drug users. The 48-million dollar project will provide these populations with HAART.
Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Prevention: Many Concerns and Challenges, but are There Ways Forward in Sub-Saharan Africa?
With no HIV prevention interventions producing dramatic declines to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the authors wonder whether Granich et al.'s (2009) test-and-treat theoretic model provides a "ray of hope" in curbing the epidemic in this part of the world. As such, if proof of concept and validation studies find that this model is indeed plausible, the authors present four key operational challenges to universal testing and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, and possible ways to address them. These include 1) community acceptability and protection of human rights—that is, weighing public health benefits versus health benefits to the individual; 2) availability of safe, effective, first-line ARV regimen for asymptomatic patients; 3) delivering ARV on a mass scale in sub-Saharan Africa; and 4) ensuring a viable, accurate monitoring and reporting system. Their insights include discussion of conceptual, financial, ethical, and programmatic issues related to a universal test-and-treat strategy.
When to Start and Test and Treat: RCT and Modeling in Côte d'Ivoire
This presentation includes data from an ongoing clinical trial in Côte d'Ivoire that randomizes participants to ART before they reach the point when the WHO recommends initiation. Data collected from the study were then used to inform a mathematical model. The model concluded that combining annual HIV screening with providing ART when diagnosed with HIV would increase survival and decrease morbidity. However, it could also decrease secondary transmission in the short-term while increasing secondary transmission in the long-term. For short-term decreases in secondary transmission to be maintained over time, decreases in the rate of ART failure and HIV transmission risk must take place.
Population Effect of ART Therapy to Reduce HIV Transmission—PopART
This presentation outlines the PopART pilot study, which will assess whether a CRT of universal testing and treatment is feasible, practical, acceptable, and potentially effective in drastically reducing HIV transmission. Taking place in Uganda and Zambia from 2010–2013, this study will collect information on acceptability; refine and explore mathematical models that can inform the design of the CRT; undertake qualitative research on trust, barriers, and experiences in service delivery; and assess five components related to human rights and ethics. The study will also pilot test 100 individuals who are living with HIV with immediate treatment with ART. If results indicate that the intervention is safe, acceptable, and has a greater than 50 percent effect on HIV incidence, then the researchers will begin a large-scale CRT using a universal test-and-treat strategy.
Universal Testing and Treatment for HIV Infection: Key Research Questions
This presentation summarizes the research questions that need to be answered to understand whether a universal test-and-treat strategy for preventing HIV transmission is acceptable, feasible, effective, safe, and cost-effective. The various issues are summarized under the following categories: HIV testing strategies, HIV treatment strategies, health service issues, effects of universal test-and-treat strategy on HIV transmission, and others. Because preliminary studies may find that such a strategy is not feasible or acceptable, more limited approaches to ART for HIV prevention must also be a part of the research agenda.
Treatment as Prevention: Trials to Provide Proof of Concept
After reviewing studies that find reduced HIV transmission among people using ART, this presentation reviews ways that studies could show the "proof of concept" for a universal test-and-treat strategy. It includes discussion of using a cluster of individuals (for example, an entire village) as the unit of randomization and two trials to assess whether a test-and-treat strategy can work.
Fighting H.I.V., a Community at a Time
This news article discusses the interest in implementing a test-and-treat strategy for HIV. U.S.. health officials have designed a three-year study in the Bronx borough of New York City and the District of Columbia—places with some of the highest HIV rates in the country—to determine the feasibility of such an intervention. The article highlights some of the challenges in getting people tested for HIV and getting medical care to those who have tested positive for HIV.
Statement of the Johannesburg Civil Society Consultation on ART for Prevention
Thirty representatives from human rights organizations in seven sub-Saharan African countries met to discuss the Granich et al. (2009) model and the practical application of this model to HIV programming. A two-page statement of opposition to the universal test-and-treat strategy outlined in the Granich et al. paper lays out their concerns, including flawed assumptions, human rights shortcomings, and a lack of attention to marginalized and/or vulnerable groups. They state that the model fails to adequately capture modes of transmission outside of heterosexual sex, barriers to testing and treatment among vulnerable groups in particular, and ideological opposition to many proven HIV prevention methods. They state, "The model is fundamentally at odds with a human rights based response to HIV." The group recommends discussions, research, and analysis of a list of key issues before any action is taken to implementing such a universal test-and-treat model.
Changes in Sexual Behavior and Risk of HIV Transmission after Antiretroviral Therapy and Prevention Interventions in Rural Uganda
This study followed a cohort of 926 heterosexual Ugandans living with HIV who were receiving ART to see whether theories of behavioral disinhibition among ART users were borne out. Participants had ART delivered weekly to their homes by lay field officers who referred participants to the study clinic for health care and counseling when needed. Counselors undertook private, home-based interviews with study participants at enrollment and every three months on sexual behavior. Compared to baseline, risky sexual behaviors declined after about six months of ART use, despite participants reporting an increase in sexual desire in the three months prior to being interviewed. The study found a 70 percent decrease in the number of unprotected sex acts with partners of unknown HIV status. Furthermore, the authors calculated a 98 percent reduction in estimated HIV transmission as a result of lowered viral load and changes in sexual behavior. Limitations of the study included self-reported sexual behavior, a majority of study participants being abstinent, a relatively short follow-up period (five to seven months), and that the same counselors providing risk reduction counseling also conducted the interviews with study participants.
HIV Prevention for a Threatened Continent: Implementing Positive Prevention in Africa
This commentary proposes that the "positive prevention" approach to HIV prevention being used in industrialized nations—focusing preventive interventions only on those infected with HIV—be adopted in Africa and other high-prevalence regions. The authors propose 10 approaches for such a program in Africa and prioritize the interventions based on those with the greatest potential to reduce HIV transmission. These include disclosing HIV status to partners, partner testing, providing ART, preventing unintended pregnancies and maternal-to-child transmission of HIV, among others. Some of these approaches are proven and some have just been piloted, while others need exploration and the development of evidence-based policy.
HIV Treatment as Protection: Next Steps.
This two-page editorial introduces nine articles in this issue that discuss possibilities and concerns surrounding the test-and-treat method. Cohen et al. start the series with a review of the HPTN 052 trial. Dieffenbach presents an implementation research agenda. The next papers examine ways of measuring viral levels and detecting acute infection, and the implications of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for prevention. The last article explores questions about the actual implementation of the test-and-treat strategy. The series provides the latest thinking and science on this emerging HIV prevention strategy.
Preventing HIV Transmission Through Antiretroviral Treatment-Mediated Virologic Suppression: Aspects of an Emerging Scientific Agenda
According to the author, HIV testing must become the entry point for all individually focused HIV combination strategies. He advocates focusing on the psychosocial and structural drivers that impede HIV testing, such as lack of access to care if the diagnosis is positive. He identifies linkage and retention in care as imperative to move treatment as prevention from proof of concept in a clinical trial to a public health intervention. He points out that linkage to care continues to remain a challenge in many settings; for example, 50 percent of HIV-positive people in the United States are currently not receiving care services, including antiretroviral therapy (ART). He stresses that easy-to-use point-of-care testing kits administered by peer counselors may provide access to those hard-to-reach populations that may not otherwise seek care. He also stresses that linkage to care is not enough and that there must be a focus on retention, particularly following initiation of ART treatment. According to the author, other issues related to treatment as prevention include the effect of the route of exposure to HIV on the efficacy of ART as prevention, the most effective way to initiate early treatment, and a possible role for therapeutic vaccines and a functional cure. Other issues include how to sustain the prevention effect and how to improve viral load testing and HIV therapy. He also advocates for increasing implementation research on the factors that impede access to testing and care services.
Expanding ART for Treatment and Prevention of HIV in South Africa: Estimated Cost and Cost-effectiveness 2011-2050
The authors of this article sought to measure the health system cost, health benefit, and cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV prevention programs in South Africa if ART were more readily available to those in need. They modeled four ART options: 1) the current practice of providing ART for individuals who have CD4 counts of <200 cells/mm3; 2) starting ART for those with CD4 counts of <350 cells/mm3, the current WHO recommendation, which South Africa started implementing in 2010; 3) starting art at CD4 counts of <500 cells/mm3; and 4) universal access to ART. The inputs include information on the epidemic, health care, and costs, and the outcome measured were new HIV infections, deaths, disability adjusted life years (DALYs), and cost. The model will included costs from a best practice program that includes HIV counseling and testing, ART provision, and other support. It was found that all of the enhanced models were beneficial in terms of reducing HIV incidence and prevalence, decreasing deaths, increasing lives saved, and decreasing DALYs and costs by the forty-year end point. The rates of change for each outcome improve based on the increased availability of ART. Costs for the enhanced scenarios are almost all the same, or are at a reduced cost, by 2015. The authors demonstrate through their economic models that increasing investments in ART will provide long-term benefits to both the people of South Africa and the health care system.
Universal Access to HIV Treatment versus Universal "Test and Treat": Transmission, Drug Resistance & Treatment Costs
The research presented in this article compared the costs and impact for South Africa of providing universal access to HIV treatment—antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those who test positive for HIV and have a CD4 count under a certain level—versus a "test and treat" (T&T) strategy where all individuals are tested in a certain area, and all who test positive receive treatment, regardless of CD4 count. This study followed an earlier World Health Organization (WHO) study that found that universal T&T would eliminate HIV in South Africa within 10 years and cost approximately U.S.$10 billion less than universal access to treatment over 40 years. Using the same mathematical model as the WHO study but with additional variables to reflect epidemiological realities, the authors got very different results: universal T&T would take 40 years to eliminate HIV in South Africa and cost about U.S.$12 billion more than universal access. The authors attribute the difference between these two sets of results to limitations in the earlier WHO mathematical model, which underestimated survival length and did not account for the development of resistance to HIV drugs. The authors predict that, after 20 years of universal T&T implementation, about 2 million individuals in South Africa would require expensive second-line ART, compared to about 1.5 million for a universal access strategy.
Behavioral Factors in Assessing Impact of HIV Treatment as Prevention
According to the authors, HIV-related risk behaviors, treatment access, and treatment success ultimately affect the outcomes of treatment as prevention (TASP). Before fully implementing TASP, the authors recommend that behavioral issues be examined at each stage within the cascade of care: awareness of serostatus, linkage to care, retention in care, access to antiretroviral therapy, adherence to therapy, and successful suppression of viral load. To identify gaps, they encourage prioritizing who will receive TASP, identifying some of the unmet needs for TASP, and measuring the correlation between HIV-related risk behaviors and TASP. According to the authors, TASP is most beneficial for people living with HIV who are aware of their serostatus and are engaged in risky behavior. The authors encourage public health and clinical providers to develop tools to identify clients that engage in either sexual or drug injection transmission risk behaviors, address the social and individual determinants of these risk behaviors, and employ TASP when these behaviors are present. They anticipate that understanding who is most likely to transmit the virus can make TASP more effective at meeting the clinical needs of these individuals and the larger public health imperative of averting new infections. TASP received wide coverage at the International AIDS Conference because of its potential as a "game changer" in the global epidemic. Related research presented at the gathering included designing TASP programming and implementing TASP in countries with high levels of antiretroviral coverage.
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TASP a reality? A perspective on linkage and ART initiation in Cambodia, India and Vietnam
Treatment as prevention in a country with high ART coverage: the Namibia example
Treatment as prevention for HIV in South Africa: different models show consistency in occurrence, but difference in timing of elimination and the overall impact of the intervention
HIV Treatment as Prevention: Models, Data, and Questions—Toward Evidence-Based Decision-Making
This introductory article provides a framework for a series of articles commissioned by the HIV Modelling Consortium on the future research agenda and implementation approaches of treatment as prevention (TASP). According to the authors, the role of antiretroviral therapy in reducing HIV incidence will be one of the most important tools in HIV prevention in the near future. They stress that implementation requires an interdisciplinary approach that involves epidemiology, economics, demography, statistics, biology, and mathematical modeling. Examining 12 mathematical models, the authors report that HIV incidence can be reduced by 35 to 54 percent after eight years if 80 percent of people living with HIV were treated when their CD4 count is 350 cells/µl. They report that once more years are added to these models, it becomes difficult to pinpoint which of many sexual risk behaviors lead to transmission. The series also examines how early infections before diagnosis—when viral concentration spikes and individuals are more infectious—may or may not lessen the impact of TASP programs and modeling estimates. Other topics included in this series include costs associated with TASP, the future direction and priorities of modeling, and best practices for model presentation and interpretation. A related presentation at the International AIDS Conference discussed the use of modeling to show efficacy of TASP for the South African epidemic.
Decreased HIV Transmission After a Policy of Providing Free Access to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Taiwan
Taiwan implemented comprehensive surveillance of HIV cases in 1989 and a program of universal free access to HAART in 1997. The government encouraged early, intensive treatment of HIV infection, with a recommendation to withhold HAART only from patients who had a HIV RNA viral load of less than 5000 copies/mL and a CD4 cell count in the normal range. Using data from surveillance and statistical modeling to estimate the transmission rate of HIV in the population, the investigators examined the effect of providing free, universal HAART on HIV transmission. The prevalence of HIV in Taiwan at the end of 2002 was 0.019 percent of the total population. The HIV transmission rate decreased 53 percent after the introduction of the HAART program. This change occurred without any change in syphilis rates during the same period, suggesting that HAART introduction was not associated with a change in sexual risk behavior. This study suggested that widespread use of HAART could be an important tool for controlling the HIV epidemic, especially in countries with low prevalence of HIV infection.


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Listen to an overview of this plan by our Superintendent Joseph Sheehan
The Sheboygan Area School District Board of Education approved a plan that will allow the district to turn one-time federal funding into long-term savings.
The Sheboygan Area School District was awarded $1.6 million dollars under the federal Title 1 Education Jobs Fund. Under the plan, which was approved by the board and ratified by the Sheboygan Education Association (SEA), the district can offer a one year, one-time retirement incentive while spending no local taxpayers' monies.
District and SEA officials worked collaboratively to develop a plan that would allow up to 100 teachers to retire, thus creating vacancies to avoid future lay-offs, allow for recalls, and possibly allow for the hiring of new teacher.
This early retirement program could identify up to $2.9 million in savings to address the district's projected 2011-2012 budget deficit, while limiting the impact to the classroom. Long term, the District estimates the plan could save the district over $10 million.
"It will allow more experienced teachers who are at the top of the salary schedule to retire while preserving the positions of younger teachers," said SASD Superintendent Joe Sheehan.
Under this plan, teachers who are at least 55 years old with a minimum of 10 years of service to the district will be offered a $6,000 retirement incentive deposited into a non-elective tax sheltered annuity account.
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Cheverus wins Western A title!
SCARBOROUGH—A year after falling one goal shy, the Cheverus field hockey team is heading for the Class A state final.
The Stags, who entered the 2010 campaign with virtually no expectations, even among themselves, completed a stunning regional tournament run with a decisive 5-2 victory over Bonny Eagle Tuesday evening on Scarborough's turf field.
Fourth-ranked Cheverus, just three days removed from an upset win over defending Class A champion Scarborough, started slowly, but got two penalty corner goals off the howitzer-like stick of senior Emily Sawchuck in a 3 minute, 4 second span to a 2-1 halftime lead. The Stags then put it away in the second half, scoring three times in just over seven minutes, as Sawchuck scored twice more and junior Sarah LaQuerre also got in on the fun, en route to the win which sets up a date with perennial powerhouse Skowhegan in Saturday's state final.
"The kids played their hearts out," said Cheverus' third-year coach, Amy McMullin. "I couldn't be more proud of them."
Steady rise
The Cheverus field hockey program is only in its seventh varsity season, but it's shown steady growth. After an 0-14 mark in 2004, the Stags were 2-11-1 in 2005, then made the playoffs for the first time in 2006, finishing 5-9-1 after a preliminary round loss to Deering. Three years ago, Cheverus posted a winning mark for the first time, winding up 10-5-1 after a quarterfinal round loss to Gorham. McMullin replaced Patsy Fowler for the 2008 campaign and led the Stags to a 10-7 mark and the semis before bowing out against Westbrook. Last season, Cheverus won 15 games and dropped a 3-2 decision to Scarborough in the regional final.
After losing 13 players, the Stags' hopes were tempered entering 2010, but Cheverus won its first five games and seven of its first eight before struggling down the stretch with three losses in six contests, including a 6-1 pounding at Scarborough on Oct. 8.
Once the posteason began, however, this was a vastly different team. The Stags earned the No. 4 seed and held off No. 5 Kennebunk in the quarterfinals, 3-2, then shocked the world with a 2-1 victory at No. 1 Scarborough on sophomore Brooke Flaherty's late goal.
Tuesday evening, in the fog, Cheverus met a Bonny Eagle squad that was seeded seventh, but had upset No. 2 Westbrook and No. 3 Thornton Academy and was seeking to make it to states for the first time since 2005.
The Stags and Scots didn't play this year.
It took Cheverus a little while to get going Tuesday, but once the Stags hit their stride, they were dazzling.
Bonny Eagle struck first, taking a 1-0 lead just 4 minutes, 23 seconds in when senior Chelsea Yates scored in transition off a shot from senior Peyton Dostie.
Two minutes later, after the Scots narrowly missed a second goal, McMullin called timeout.
"I think we were just a little overexcited, so I didn't hesitate to call a quick timeout," McMullin said. "We've been down before and it's a long game. We had plenty of time to come back and this team has shown it can come back. I told them to focus and make passes. We regrouped and from then on, I thought we did a great job."
With 13 minutes to go in the 30-minute first half, the Stags earned their first penalty corner and Sawchuck had a shot blocked by a defender.
With 7:25 left, Sawchuck wouldn't be denied, taking senior Anna McDonough's pass off a corner and firing the ball into the cage as only she can to make it a brand new game.
"We needed that first goal to get us motivated," McDonough said. "It's something we work on all the time in practice. 'Chuck has an amazing drive. If I can get a good hit off to her it works every time."
A minute later, Scots' senior goalie Rebecca Coney denied Sawchuck on a corner, but with 4:21 remaining, Sawchuck put Cheverus ahead to stay as on a near carbon copy of the first goal, she took McDonough's insertion pass, moved to her right, then blasted a tough angle shot into the cage.
"We caught them off guard on corners," said Sawchuck, who also had two penalty corner goals in last year's regional final. "They didn't know how fast it was going to go or where it was going to go. It was always on the ground."
"('Chuck) loves this field," added McMullin. "I was all over her at the beginning. She was just too overexcited. She loves turf and I told her it was her time to shine and she did that. I have a lot of natural athletes. If we can (convert corners) on grass, doing it on turf is easy."
Late in the half, the Scots threatened to pull even, but Dostie's rush was broken up by Cheverus senior Lexi Hilton.
Despite owning a 9-0 advantage in corners and a 7-2 edge in shots through 30 minutes, the Stags knew the game was far from over.
"We knew we needed intensity to the max in the second half," said Sawchuck.
"The message was the game's not ending 2-1 and we needed the next goal," added McMullin.
Cheverus came right out and added to its lead.
With just 3 minutes, 21 seconds gone in the second half, junior Sarah LaQuerre dribbled through the defense and scored for a 3-1 lead.
Three minutes later, Sawchuck completed her hat trick with an unassisted goal. With the referee about to blow her whistle to signify a penalty corner, the Bonny Eagle defense momentarily hesitated and that lapse was all it took for Sawchuck to get enough room to fire home another shot.
If that wasn't enough, the Stags made it 5-1 with 19:11 to go when Sawchuck's shot appeared to be heading wide, but serendipitously deflected off a defender's stick into the cage.
The Scots got one last goal off a penalty corner (senior Nicole DeMidio) with 46.3 seconds to play, but Cheverus was able to run out the clock and at 9:07 p.m., celebrated its first regional crown.
"It's amazing to finally win this game and make it to the championship," said McDonough, who's been on the team since her freshman year in 2007. "We brought it one step further each year. It was definitely the chemistry and heart. We don't have the skills we had last year, but we definitely have the heart and that's what's brought us so far. Once we beat Scarborough, we knew we could go all the way. We just needed that confidence."
"It feels absolutely great, like no other," said Sawchuck. "We had the heart and we got it. The difference was we had to realized it could have been our last game and we didn't want it to be. We wanted it bad enough and we won."
The Stags finished with an overwhelming 16-2 advantage on corners (Bonny Eagle didn't earn its first until 2:30 remained) and a 16-5 edge in shots on goal. Sophomore Cindy Clark stopped a shot and senior Katie Semo (who entered the game late) made two saves. Coney had 11 saves for Bonny Eagle.
A team that many didn't even think would make the playoffs had completed an amazing journey.
"They've believed in me," said McMullin. "That's the biggest thing and I believed in them. We grew together. We had a lot of ups and downs, but that's the story of high school athletics. We didn't want an undefeated season. We needed the ups and downs and the feeling of having a loss. We completely regrouped coming into playoffs. It shows it's really a team game."
State championship Saturday
Cheverus (13-4) will be a decided underdog when they take the field at the University of Maine-Orono Saturday (game time hadn't been determined at press time) against 17-0 Skowhegan. The Indians won every Class A title between 2001 and 2008 before falling in overtime to Scarborough a year ago. They edged Messalonskee, McMullin's alma mater, 1-0, in the Eastern A Final Tuesday.
The Stags relish their role and look to cap their fairy tale season with the ultimate victory.
"We just have to keep doing what we're doing, be confident and have the heart," McDonough said. "Anything can happen."
"We do not want to lose our last game," said Sawchuck. "We're really close. We're all friends and we all love field hockey. It'll be a great time. We're excited."
"I hope we come out ready to play," McMullin added. "We have nothing to lose. We're the underdogs and Skowhegan's a great team. They have all the pressure."
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How to turn Wikipedia articles into e-books
September 18, 2012 | 2:05 pm
By Dan Eldridge
Taking into account the well-known unreliability of some of its content, I'm honestly not sure how I feel—intellectually-speaking—about the idea that it is now possible to transform random collections of Wikipedia articles into e-books. (More details about that later.)
But speaking from the point of view of someone who is endlessly fascinated with the possibilities of digital reading, well … I'd certainly be lying if I said I wasn't going to play around with Wikipedia's new e-book export feature for a good 20 minutes, as soon as this article is posted.
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According to a post on the Wikimedia Foundation's Tech Blog, the new ePUB export feature has been enabled on the English-language version of Wikipedia only. "You can use it to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate free ebooks," the post says. "These can be read on a broad range of devices, like mobile phones, tablets and e-ink based e-book readers."
Now, I'm someone who's been known to generate ideas for future freelance magazine pieces by clicking Wikipedia's 'Random Article' link, over and over again. So as far as I'm concerned, the possibilities for fun and amusement with this new export feature are essentially limitless.
And here's some good news: Creating the ePUB Wiki-files is incredibly easy. The very simple steps you'll find below were taken directly from the aforementioned Wikimedia post, although I've added a bit of editorializing and a few screen grabs, which I hope will make the process even simpler still.
Seriously: Give this a shot as soon as you've got an extra 15 or 20 minutes to spare. It really is a lot of fun, and depending on how much faith you happen to have in any given collection of Wikipedia articles, I suppose this process could even prove to be useful. (Let's just hope our cash-strapped university students don't start replacing their overpriced textbooks with little assortments of error-filled Wikipedia posts!)
Anyway, follow the steps below, and you'll have a fairly unique ePUB file in no time:
1. To create your personal e-book you, have to activate the 'Create a book' link located in the left sidebar of Wikipedia in the 'print/export' section:
This is pretty self-explanatory: Just pick any Wikipedia article of your choosing article; click the "Create a book" link; and you'll be given the option of adding other articles and creating chapters to your in-progress e-book.
2. Once activated, you can compile articles or complete categories into a personal collection and export them:
Again, the system pretty much walks you through the process without any hassle or confusion to speak of. Just click the "Start book creator" button, and follow the instructions you're given from there.
3. Collections can be exported in a variety of formats like PDF, EPUB, or OpenOffice:
4. You can also order a printed book via PediaPress, the official print-on-demand partner of Wikipedia.
Here's a screen grab of the check-out page that came up when I went through the process of ordering a print copy of my Wikipedia book. Apparently the default specs for these PediaPress books are soft-cover, and with B&W inks. You can see where I was given the option of paying an extra $7.00 for a hardcover (as opposed to a soft-cover) version of the book; adding color would have cost me an extra $5.00 on top of that. Of course, I don't actually know if the price for color ink increases as the size of the book (and therefore the number of color photos) increases.
It's probably also worth pointing out that my book, below, is only "about 21 pages," according to the PediaPress check out page. Regardless of the fact that a 21-page book is a physical impossibility, I'll be curious to see how much more expensive a book in, say, the 120-page range would cost. Not that I'm actually ever going to order a physical copy of a Wikipedia book … but you get the idea.
If any of you do get around to creating a Wiki-ePUB (or ordering a PediaPress hardcopy, for that matter), please be kind enough to share your thoughts with us in the comments sections, below.
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Morning Links: Cheerios ebook code. Goodreads spam?
"(Let's just hope our cash-strapped university students don't start replacing their overpriced textbooks with little assortments of error-filled Wikipedia posts!)"
There's an interesting startup called Boundless that's already doing this. Commercial publishers have already filed a suit against them claiming that the sequence of presentation is copyright-able. See: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/3-major-publishers-sue-open-education-textbook-start-up/35994
I guess they'd be OK with a history book that starts at the present and works backward. Or maybe not.
Very useful indeed and it seems to be fun creating your own book. This makes it easy for you to get access to important files that you saved and use it on projects that you might be working on. Instead of searching all the time, this e-book export feature permits you too arrange files for easy search and access.


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Blinn College played host to the Brazos Valley Regional Science Olympiad Saturday. Middle school and high school teams competed in 35 different science categories. The naked egg drop and trajectory areas were big crowd pleasers.
Some Riverwood middle schoolers say they've been practicing for on the trajectory events for weeks.
"You have to get it lined up with the middle of the target, the trajectory, and then whenever you shoot it if it moves left or right then you have to move it according to how far it goes," said competitors Meaghan Anderson and Sami Mero.
Kids could compete in all kinds of categories from genetics and robotics, to astronomy and geology.
Winners from Saturday's event advance to the state science olympiad at Texas A&M in April. The Texas winners will travel to Washington, DC in May for the national competition.
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"Girls [would] come into the bar with their boyfriends, and as bartenders we've got to sell our liquor," says a co-worker who asked not to be identified in this story. "It's not that we'd do anything to their boyfriends, but their boyfriends would look at us and they'd get pissed off. [Some of the girls] thought she was a whore. One night we were at a party after work, and they all tried to gang up on her. But Jennifer was never a whore or a skank. They were jealous: The girls didn't like her because she was pretty."
But Venezia did like her. Though she had no experience running a tavern, within months of signing on she was managing the Golden Eagle and living next door with the former mob boss. But she kept quiet about the relationship, and to this day friends and family are uncertain whether they were romantically involved. Occasionally she'd leave a party to help Venezia with something; she ferried him to his chemotherapy sessions and drove him around. But friends say she rarely talked about him. Her parents say that before she died she'd begun dating someone new. In the weeks before his death, neighbors report having seen Venezia out walking, riding his bike and even jogging. After the killings Milan Venezia told reporters his father's cancer was in remission.
Anderson's parents say she never told them she was living with Venezia.
"I was very concerned but constantly lied to by her," maintains Michael Anderson, Jennifer's father. "She'd tell me that she'd just leave the car [at the bar] and sleep at a friend's house."
When the Golden Eagle was shut down in the spring of this year for serving underage drinkers, Anderson got a job stripping at the Penthouse Club in Sauget, where she worked under the stage name "Raven." By all accounts she wasn't happy with the job.
"She wasn't liking all of the clientele," says longtime friend and onetime boyfriend Jared Sileven. "She was going to quit stripping and go back to the bar business."
The Andersons, who live only a few blocks away from the tavern on Mascoutah, say they hadn't known about the strip-joint job. "We didn't know she was stripping until the day she was found," says Michael Anderson, who works as a home rehabber.
Still, the Andersons suspected that their daughter, whom they describe as fearless, trusting and loyal, was mired in a bad situation. "From the moment she took a job at the Golden Eagle there was a decline," Michael Anderson says. "When it comes to these people [like Venezia], anybody's daughter is in trouble. This innocent little kid became a party animal."
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Monday, August 6, 2012
If you have a lot to do, write it down. Even if you dont have a lot to do, write it down.
Why? It makes life a lot easier.
There are things we think we cant forget, but that is not true. I have known parents who forgot to pick up their child from school and had to be called. I have known men who forgot to pick up their wives from work and got into serious trouble.
There are busy executives, pastors and others who forget meetings or meeting times. We forget things, even things that we do regularly. It makes life so much easier and simpler if we make a daily to-do list and work from it.
I remember doing some time management training for a local college. The supervisor for that area and I got into a discussion about time management and I shared with her the value of having a to-do list. What she told me was enlightening.
She said that there were many nights she would lay in bed wondering if she had forgotten to do something that was really important from the past day and whether she would forget anything important the next day. I told her that she could rest well if she just wrote down everything she had to do, and as she accomplished them she could just put a line through them.
When you are busy a to-do list can be your best friend.
There is a right way and a wrong way to do nearly everything and that includes making up or using your to-do list. One of the cardinal rules is write it down as soon as it happens or it comes to you.
Many a receptionist or employee has taken a message and instead of writing it down immediately they stopped to say something or do something, and in that short interval whatever they were to write down escaped them until it was too late.
Sometimes something important comes to mind that we really dont want to forget but we are too lazy or occupied to make a note of it right away, and we end up paying a high price for procrastinating.
Now that I have said all of that I must practice what I preach. No matter how well I think I have things under control I need to write it down.
We often say that in a given day no one can do everything they would like to do. It is equally true if not more so that in a given day no man can remember every possible thing that needs to be done. Write it down so you wont forget something really important and that could cost you a lot.
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[ Email | Share ] CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The new documentary "Life Itself," about the life of Roger Ebert, will be one of the 12 films shown at this year's Roger Ebert's Film Festival, or "Ebertfest," coming April 23-27 to Champaign and Urbana, Ill.
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this month, "Life Itself" was directed by documentary filmmaker Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and is based on Ebert's 2011 memoir of the same name. It features interviews with more than two dozen of Ebert's lifelong friends, professional colleagues and filmmakers, including Ramin Bahrani, Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese.
"Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success," according to James, in an open letter for The Daily Beast. "With the same spirit in which Roger shared so much of his life with his fans and followers, we hope to build a community for this film where people can participate in the celebration of Roger's legacy and impact on all of us."
"Many know Roger's story to be inspiring," James wrote. "But he was also a flesh and blood man whose life was full of humor, hubris and his own share of heartbreak. We are aiming to tell the whole story. …"
James is set to attend the 16th annual Ebertfest as a filmmaker guest and will participate in a customary question-and-answer session following the screening, the date and time of which has not been set.
The "Life Itself" screening is sponsored by Steak 'n Shake, a longtime Ebertfest sponsor and the subject of a chapter in Ebert's book.
Ebertfest is a five-day film festival that annually has showcased 12 to 14 films that Ebert, a 1964 Illinois journalism graduate, believed had been overlooked by audiences, critics or distributors. Ebert died on April 4, 2013.
Presented through the College of Media at Illinois, the festival will be hosted, as in recent years, by Ebert's wife, Chaz.
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If a light snow falls over night - just ½" or so - notice in the morning what the pattern of melting is on your roof, then check your neighbor's roof. If you see the snow before the sun has had a chance to work on it and before the wind has blown it around, you can see a lot about the efficiency of a house. All we can see are problems in the attic, not in the rest of the house. The following pictures were taken before 8:00 AM the morning after the same light snow.
Here is a house to envy. Ranch houses have a better chance of being efficient than other types because of their simple geometry. The snow is not affected by the heated house, meaning that the attic floor is reasonably airtight and insulation is sufficient.
This house is good news and bad news. The good news is that it is beautifully restored and from the 18th century, but the bad news is the owner is paying to melt the snow on his roof. Very little insulation and a leaky attic floor.
Here is a pretty good addition on the back of an inefficient main house.
This shot shows a duplex.Which side has the insulated and air sealed attic?Which one has the higher bill?
The split-level is a common type of house in our area, built from the 50's to the 80's. It's a two-story house that has been split in the middle and the sides shifted up and down. That split wall in the middle is an open pathway from the basement to the lower of the two attics. Here you can see the heat from the interior has melted the snow on the lower attic roof, but not on the upper attic roof.
Can you spot the missing insulation?
This dutch colonial has the typical holes in the house across the front into the small roof area above the front door. This results in a cold floor on the second floor and higher energy use.
This is the worst energy problem we build in to houses - the Cape Cod Syndrome. The small triangular attics across the front and back are open into the house. This problem not only wastes energy, it takes the moisture in the air from your cooking, showering, and breathing and puts it into the attics where it can cause mold and rot. Notice the addition on the left is pretty good.
This shot was taken after a much larger snowstorm. Notice how quaint the building looks with the icicles hanging down the front eave. This is caused by a warm attic that melts the snow layer from the bottom. That water runs down the warm roof until it hits the cold area at the edge where it freezes and backs up under the shingles. You can get water in the attic and the house, and a lot of damage.
So next time it snows, let your neighbors know what you think of their efficiency.


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In this course, author and business coach Dave Crenshaw teaches you to get the most from your meetings—turning them into productive avenues for communicating, connecting, and accomplishing real work. The course demonstrates a simple, usable framework that will help you lead and participate in meetings large and small and provides insight into how to schedule, conduct, and follow up on meetings with minimum time and maximum results.
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Occasionally, when I talk about the concept of one-to-one meetings, people are uncertain who they should be holding these meetings with. To help you decide the best people to meet with in one-to-one meetings, we've provided a simple worksheet that will walk you through the decision-making process. This worksheet is a subjective guide that allows you to evaluate for yourself the needs of the people that you work with. In the first column, you will see Work Relationship. Simply list all the people that you work with on a regular, recurring basis.
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The next column is Ongoing client. This applies particularly to service professionals who have clients on retainer or who you're working with on a long-term project. If you have someone like that that you meet with, put a 3 there. The rest of the columns Questions, Delegate, Coordinate, and Follow up can simply be answered with the 0, 1, 2, or 3. 0 would represent never, 1 rarely, 2 occasionally, and 3 frequently.
So for instance, if I put Aimee's name here and we both frequently ask each other questions, then I would put 3 in the Questions column. Fill in each of the columns for the various people that you meet with. Delegate means that you delegate things back and forth to them, or they to you. Coordinate means how often do you two need to coordinate your schedule? And Follow up means how often do you follow up with each other to make sure that you are successful in what you do? Again, this is not an exact science, but just a simple scale to help you understand how critical it is to meet with people on a regular one-to-one basis.
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Mountaineers Upset Oklahoma State
Not many people saw this one coming, especially after the way West Virginia slogged through the rain in Baltimore last weekend.
But a swarming Mountaineer defense kept after Oklahoma State quarterback J.W. Walsh all afternoon, and the offense did just enough to help pull off a 30-21 upset victory over the 11th-ranked Cowboys this afternoon at Milan Puskar Stadium.
It was the first time since beating 11th-ranked Texas on the road last year that West Virginia has defeated a top 15-ranked team, and it was easily WVU's biggest win at home since it knocked off eighth-ranked Pitt in the 2009 Backyard Brawl.
"Our defense played well," said West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen. "They created turnovers and stuck people. They held a team to 21 points that hasn't been held to that for quite some time."
Today, a weaving-through-traffic Ishmael Banks returned a Walsh pass 58 yards for a touchdown to get things going for WVU, and Clint Trickett, making his first career start, helped a struggling offense come to life with 309 yards passing, including a 17-yard touchdown throw to Kevin White.
That pass play was West Virginia's first touchdown hookup to a wide receiver this season against BCS-level competition.
Trickett completed less than 50 percent of his pass attempts (24-50), and he did throw a pair of interceptions, but he didn't make the killer mistakes on West Virginia's side of the field that happened last weekend against Maryland.
"Clint did a great job of keeping plays alive, and we had a sense that he could do that," said Holgorsen. "Just watching the film from when he was at Florida State, you could see he has that ability.
"He does not operate the offense, though, and people will ask me why he's not playing, but he has been getting better and better. The operations for me on the sideline were incredibly frustrating. I threw a couple of temper tantrums, which I am quite embarrassed about, but it is just the communication that needs to get better."
Running back Charles Sims had 142 all-purpose yards - 82 of those coming through the air - while also punching in an important 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.
Also, Josh Lambert converted three field goals of 45, 27 and 34 yards, the latter putting West Virginia up by nine with 1:56 left in the game.
Walsh, meanwhile, was a scattershot 20-of-47 passing for 322 yards and three touchdowns while throwing two critical interceptions – the Banks pick six in the first quarter and the other coming late in the game to Darwin Cook that set up Lambert's clinching field goal. Walsh was trying to get the ball to Tracy Moore, but he overthrew him.
Holgorsen shook up his lineup today, making 21 changes to his depth chart before the game, including at quarterback where Trickett was making his first start as a Mountaineer just a few months after transferring from Florida State.
Trickett didn't blow up the stat sheet this afternoon but he did manage the game well; he used his feet to get out of trouble when Oklahoma State brought pressure and he made a couple of big passes down the field to Sims Ronald Carswell, and Mario Alford. He also made some critical throws under pressure in the fourth quarter that led to Lambert's two field goals.
"There have been a bunch of emotions over the past week - embarrassment and disappointment - but they kept working," said Holgorsen, one week after his team's 37-0 loss to Maryland. "It was the best week of practice that we have had all year. We felt like we could win, so we went out there and wanted it pretty bad."
At the game's outset, it looked like the well-rested Cowboys, who were coming off an open week, were going to take West Virginia out to the woodshed, especially after Josh Stewart took a screen pass 73 yards for the game's first score with 8:32 left in the first quarter.
But the Mountaineer defense recovered and kept Oklahoma State from getting anything going in the running game. OSU finished the afternoon averaging just 2.8 yards per rush and got the vast majority of its yardage through the air.
"We went 111 yards in 40 carries," said Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy. "That's two and some yards a carry. That's not like us. We traditionally average four or five yards a carry. We have to be able to run the football to function offensively."
Oklahoma State's other scores were a 27-yard TD catch by a wide open Moore in the second quarter, and Jeremy Seaton's 30-yard reception coming out of the backfield on the Cowboys' opening drive of the third quarter, reducing West Virginia's lead to 24-21.
The Mountaineers (3-2, 1-1) spent almost the entire third quarter on their side of the field, starting from their own 15, 3, 24, 3 and 21. Despite that, the Cowboys couldn't capitalize, particularly at the start of the fourth quarter when they took over in WVU territory after Stewart returned Nick O'Toole's 57-yard punt 36 yards to the Mountaineer 44.
On second and 10, Walsh found Moore for 31 yards to the West Virginia 13. A Desmond Roland run of six yards got the ball to the 7, and after Banks was called for a facemask a third-down pass that fell incomplete, the WVU defense stiffened.
A Jeremy Smith run netted two yards on first down to the 1. Walsh then tried a fade to Moore in the back of the end zone that was unsuccessful before Dontrill Hyman burst through the line to slam down Smith for a five-yard loss back to the 6. It looked like Smith may have also fumbled on the play (which would have been his second), but the instant replay official ruled that Smith's knee was down before the ball came out.
From there, Gundy decided to go for a game tying 23-yard field goal that Ben Grogan clanked off the right upright. It was the first time Oklahoma State failed to score in the red zone this year. The Cowboys came into the game ranked No. 1 in the country in red zone offense.
Two possessions later, WVU scored its first points of the second half on Lambert's field goal.
The loss was Oklahoma State's first of the year, dropping the Cowboys to 3-1 overall and 0-1 in Big 12 play. Oklahoma State returns home to face Kansas State on Oct. 5.
"We had three total turnovers," said Gundy. "It's difficult to win when you turn the ball over like that."
The Mountaineers knows the feeling, giving the ball back to Maryland six times in last weekend's loss.
West Virginia is back on the road to face 19th-ranked Baylor in Waco. The Bears, like Oklahoma State this afternoon, will have the week off and will be well rested.
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A DVD digest of Suzuki Airi's 3rd solo DVD titled Natsuyasumi has been released.
The preview features three outfits: seifuku, yellow bikini, and a dress (the one on the DVD cover), in many different settings such as a school, the beach, and an old train station.
Even though there is no talking or special introductions by Airi I have to admit that the preview looks incredible since it gives us a chance to see many great shots of Airi posing and looking at the camera, as well as some outfits that will appear on the DVD and the PB.
I love how Airi acts throughout the preview since she looks at the camera and smiles many times (sometimes laughing), and since she seems to naturally interact with the camera it makes her reactions seem a bit more natural and cute.
Overall the preview is very interesting since it gives us a chance to see part of the DVD and some great scenes featuring Airi, and even though it was somewhat short I have to admit that I love how it looks overall since the outfits and the scenes are all very impressing.
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WORCESTER, Mass. - Holy Cross head women's basketball coach Bill Gibbons and athletic director Richard M. Regan, Jr., have announced the Crusaders' schedule for the 2007-2008 season, which is slated to begin on November 11. The Crusaders will play a number of challenging non-conference games, including the Long Island University Tournament and the University of Florida Tournament. The home schedule will include a total of 12 games at the Hart Center this year.
"Our non-conference schedule is extremely challenging as always, highlighted by our early tour of the New England states, two terrific tournaments, and our in-state rivals Boston College and Harvard," said head coach Bill Gibbons.
Holy Cross begins the season with its home opener against Vermont (Nov. 11). The next two games for the Crusaders will be away versus Connecticut (Nov. 14) and Maine (Nov. 18). Holy Cross hosts Rhode Island (Nov. 20) before traveling to New York for the LIU Tournament (Nov. 23-24). Holy Cross will be on the road for the next six games playing Boston College (Dec. 5), Harvard (Dec. 18), University of Florida (Dec. 28), followed by the finals (Dec. 29), St. Peter's (Jan. 2), and Yale (Jan. 6).
The Crusaders will have a two-game home stand verses Lafayette (Jan. 12) and Dartmouth (Jan. 14). On the road for the next three games, Holy Cross will play Army (Jan. 16), Bucknell (Jan. 20), and Navy (Jan 23.). Contests against American (Jan. 26) and Colgate (Jan. 30) will be played at the Hart Center, followed by travel to Lehigh (Feb. 2) and Lafayette (Feb. 9).
The Crusaders then play three straight conference games at home, taking Army (Feb. 13), Bucknell (Feb. 16), and Navy (Feb. 20). Closing up its regular season travel, Holy Cross will play at American (Feb. 23) and Colgate (Feb. 27). The final game of the regular season Holy Cross will host Lehigh (Mar. 1).
"Recapturing our Patriot League title will also be a tremendous challenge, as I feel our league is as strong from top to bottom as it has ever been," said Gibbons.
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Some games have readable books. Come and quench your thirst for knowledge.
Cages are often used to house prisoners or animals. Other cages are used to confine combatants.
A secondary weapon in Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. It can target 3 enemies and when thrown it unleashes powerful homing rockets upon them.
Cookies have been featured as snacks in many games.
Petaled parts of plants that are often fragrant and vibrantly colored; occasionally games task players with collecting flowers.
A fruit is a sweet and edible food that contains seeds. It is one of the major food groups according to the USDA. In many games, fruit is a bonus item, while vegetables rarely are.
To some the humble frying pan may appear to be a humble instrument of home cooking, but to those who count these Teflon coated beauties are a valuable aid to assault and battery.
A powerful item which is added in many games.
A large and sometimes decorated vessel for drinking. It can be made of silver or gold and is often times used for religious purposes. It is a quest item in many video games.
Used in Many Games Such As to open doors in Resident Evil games.
Used to open doors, or anything else that is locked. In any game where the player has an inventory, it's a safe bet that a key will appear at some point.
A knife is a commonly seen object in video games. Usually used for close quarters combat, or as a cutting tool.
The silent killer, drip some of this fine death juice onto your favorite weapon and watch as your foes die a slow and painful death.
A potion is any sort of liquid, usually brewed by an alchemist, that replenishes the health, mana, or energy of the player, or causes damage to an enemy. Potions are extremely common in role-playing games.
Just like in the real world, a Safe is a very solid, secure box that has uses a number combination as a key. In sci-fi games, these can often also be hacked open using either a passive skill or a tool that the player has collected.
A roll of parchment or paper inscribed with writing, symbols, pictures, etc.
A series of words of power, usually accompanied by a series of hand gestures, that unlocks the powers of magic for a brief moment. Can be read or just spoken from memory.
Collect them, orbit them, conquer planets around them -- they're a staple of many genres of games.
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WELCOME / CROESO - The Iris Prize Festival 2014!
I always think of Iris as family. Granted a rather bigger family today than we knew back in 2007 when the world's finest LGBT filmmakers gathered in Cardiff for the first time. We had 7 feature films as part of our inaugural programme, this year we have 16. In 2007 we had 5 programmes of short films, this year we have 10.
There is no denying that our family is getting bigger. Guiding Iris on her journey needs constant attention and is a responsibility I cherish and enjoy. As Iris extends her reach to include unexpected but welcome new partnerships (more about this during the festival!) I, with your support, will make sure we never lose that friendly family feel that makes Cardiff in October such a special place.
If you have been to Iris before you will notice some changes. I've already eluded to growth and in reality what this means is you will need to make choices about what you would like to see. In previous years you've been able to see everything, this will not be possible in 2014! I've had a good look at the programme and have made my viewing decisions. It was a little like opening a large box of chocolates, slightly overwhelming, but worth the effort.
If this is your first visit to Iris, please enjoy our programme of the best LGBT films which this year includes the new Iris Prize Best British Short programme sponsored by Pinewood Studios, our first country focus looking at LGBT Cinema from Israel and the welcome return of Iris Alumni Till Kleinert with his new feature film The Samurai and Daniel Ribiero with The Way He Looks.
Before I leave you to consider your viewing and partying opportunities at Iris this year I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our funders and sponsors. Without them Iris would not happen. Once again this year I would like to pay particular thanks to my good friend Lord Glendonbrook who continues to support the Iris Prize through his generosity via The Michael Bishop Foundation. I'm delighted that he is able to join us this year for the Iris Awards as we present for the 8th time the Iris Prize, the world's largest LGBT short film prize at £25,000.
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