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College Hockey:Boeser reflects on successful season for St. Thomas
It wasn't the way St. Thomas wanted to end its season, but despite the 3-0 loss to Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the NCAA tournament on Saturday, coach Jeff Boeser is pleased with the effort his team gave against the Pointers.
The Tommies and Pointers were scoreless through two periods, before Stevens Point scored three goals in the third to put the game away.
"We played a very talented hockey team, but our guys gave a great effort," Boeser said. "I felt that had we scored first, we would have been in a better position to win, but we played hard the entire game."
St. Thomas (21-5-2) had a stellar season and was one of the top teams in the nation all year. The Tommies won the MIAC regular-season title and won the MIAC tourney championship as well.
The Tommies finished with 82 goals on the season and allowed only 41 behind the solid play of goalie Drew Fielding, who owned a goals-against average of 1.43. Alex Altenbernd was the leading scorer for the Tommies as he tallied 11 goals and 14 assists.
"Those things aren't easy to do," Boeser said. "We've had a lot of success over the years here and we continued that success this year. Teams always give us their best shot and that is good for us because it makes our guys want to come out and play hard in every game."
St. Thomas is poised to be just as good next season as the Tommies lose only three seniors in Bryce Walker, Tyler Gubb and Alex Niestrom.
"A lot of our guys will have experience winning a conference championship and playing in the NCAA tournament," Boeser said. "Every year is different, but the experience should pay off."
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Both Leah Messer's and Kailyn Lowry's exes have moved on with other women so how do they feel about the new women in general and about them helping take care of their children? In a video interview with OK! magazine, posted on Tuesday, Feb. 4, the two "Teen Mom 2" stars talked about their exes's new relationships.
Leah said that she has a great relationship with Corey's new wife Miranda and that what's most important is the well-being of her and Corey's twin daughters.
"As long as she takes care of them as if they're her own when I'm not there, then I will always care about her and I will always respect her...I have to put my own feelings aside for my kids," she said.
"That's so huge. I mean I'm not even at that point yet," Kailyn interjected.
Kailyn said that when it comes to Jo and his girlfriend, Vee, who are actually living together, she still has a ways to go when it comes to forgiveness and acceptance.
"I hope that one day I will be in a place where do I feel that way, whether it's Vee or someone else that Jo is with. I look up to Lea in that aspect cause right now I just don't think that I'm in a place like that," she said.
Kailyn did add that it's fine that Vee's there and helps takes care of her son.
Kailyn isn't the only one having trouble with her ex's new relationship. Chelsea Houska revealed in her interview that she doesn't talk to Adam's girlfriend Taylor and has also said that the two are just putting up a front.
As usual, Lea Messer gave an answer that shows just what a mature woman and good mom she is. She could definitely give Kailyn Lowry, Chelsea Houska, and Jenelle Evans some valuable life lessons!
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A plane crash in Aspen that ended in an explosion occurred on Jan. 5. The private airport, which ended up killing one person and injuring two others, was on track to land at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport, located about 100 miles southeast of Denver when the accident happened. The airport is currently closed until further notice.
With regard to the accident, according to ABC News. the aircraft involved, said to be a Bombardier Challenger 600, apparently started to circle from above Aspen after attempting to land more than once.
Sadly, after the pilot's final attempt at landing, the fatal crash occurred with the plane burst flipping over and bursting into flames while missing the runway altogether.
Three were said to be aboard this plane. Sergio Carranza Brabata, a 54-year-old Mexican citizen who was also a co-pilot, died upon impact. The others were transported to an area hospital with the pilot possibly in critical condition. The passenger is said to be better off, but no details are available at this time.
The New York Times reports that the crash occurred just before one p.m. on Sunday and that fire and emergency personnel came to the scene to assist. Since this is a popular skiing destination for Hollywood luminaries, a couple were on hand to witness the tragedy including LeAn Rimes and Kevin Nealon.
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Hard hats and hammers were the equipment of choice as the Cats assisted a local Habitat for Humanity project at Howenstine Magnet High School.
Over a two-hour period, the team helped Howenstine's building trades department students build and raise four walls as part of an on-going 1,200-square-foot house project the school has been involved with on campus.
"I think our guys really enjoyed themselves," said associate head coach Jim Rosborough. "I don't think we have any future carpenters on our roster, but they enjoyed the interaction with the students at Howenstine."
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Hellbreed is a new "hack and slash" browser game from "Inflammables" game studio. I was commited for a several illustrations and those are some of them. I was a long proces but the result worth it.
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Beloved toys and portraits are used to explore dark themes in "Play by Play," a new exhibit opening this Saturday at Project 4. The pop-up exhibit is in collaboration with the arts group FLEX, with guest curator Kayleigh Bryant, and features the work of four artists: Amy Hughes Braden, Bridget Sue Lambert, Janelle Whisenant, and Mark Williams.
With a mix of sculpture, photography, and paintings, these artists alter and shift collective memories of growing up by utilizing kid-friendly color schemes and manipulating the imagery of iconic toys. Bryant was first inspired for the theme after a visit to Whisenant's studio and seeing "murdered stuffed-animal guts," spread around the workspace. Whisenant uses these tokens of discarded childhood, deconstructing the creatures from her own youth, as well as collecting abandoned plush companions from thrift stores and flea markets. Her sculptures elicit a gut reaction, while the viewer recognizes plastic eyes, patches of fur, and paws stitched together, remnants of what was once a child's most precious possession.
Braden's large paintings span an intriguing palette of colors between the vibrant rainbow of Lisa Frank Inc., and somber grays. Her portraits of children and teens capture some of the awkwardness and angst during that transitional time. "I Think We Can Do Much Better" haunts the viewer with traces of a baby's face peering out, like a family photograph that was erased with layers of brushstrokes. Braden explores family dynamics, but also seeks subjects from pop culture and news. In "Madonna of Questionable Descent," Braden portrays a woman holding a baby, staring out blankly, caught in a moment of introspection; this family portrait depicts alleged Boston Marathon Bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, seated on the lap of his mother.
Lambert uses vintage dollhouses to create and photograph miniature tableaux scenes that capture intimate moments in relationships. Dollhouses are tools for make-believe, and Lambert titles each piece with a line from a reality television show, layering the meanings of identity, sexuality, and cultural expectations. Peering into a private space of relationships, Lambert serves up what society is accepting as normal standards for respect and love. Each scene is meticulous and masterfully crafted. There is a surprising emotional pull from these plastic toys, such as the starkness and thoughtfulness of a female figure sitting on a bench in "Stop Worrying if He is the One."
Williams uses imagery of toy soldiers in this selection of work, exploring how war is marketed to children through objects to play with. The green plastic figures are cheap toys, readily available, and recognized globally. He began working on this series during the Iraq War, creating scenes and dioramas to highlight how soldiers, combat, and war, became acceptable concepts for children's playtime. Williams mixes the imagery of soldiers holding guns with cute cartoon animals and bright colors. Pieces like "untitled (yellow bunny)," pack a powerful punch of kindergartner propaganda.
The exhibit is refreshing and unsettling. Probing tokens of childhood nostalgia, "Play by Play" entices the viewer with candy colors, and delivers a thoughtful experience.
Opening reception at Project 4 this Saturday, January 11, 7-9pm. "Play by Play" is on view through February 1, 2014.


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Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation trails list
Walk Jog Run suggestions for walks in Vancouver
Friday and Monday hikes with the Clark County Newcomers Club
Sierra Club Loo Wit group (also has sea kayak and cross country skiing)
Walk Jog Run suggestions for runs in Vancouver
Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation trails list
Walk Jog Run suggestions for walks in Vancouver
Friday and Monday hikes with the Clark County Newcomers Club
Sierra Club Loo Wit group (also has sea kayak and cross country skiing)
Walk Jog Run suggestions for runs in Vancouver
Energy Events, organized running groups
How many times has this happened:
You greet the year with the best of intentions, get yourself a brand new gym membership, work out erratically — at least for a few days in January — then run out of steam and interest.
By February, you end up stuck with a yearlong contract at a fitness club that you rarely, if ever, use, and you feel guilty for wasting money.
But the road to fitness doesn't have to be paved with the carcasses of unused gym contracts. In Clark County, the road to fitness can actually be free, and it's paved with, of all things, asphalt and gravel.
"Even going out your front door and walking around your neighborhood is a great way to start (exercising)," said Jennifer Campos, a senior planner with the city of Vancouver and an avid jogger. "And there are some great trails spread out all around the county."
Guides and maps to many trails are available free online through City of Vancouver or at City Hall, 415 W. Sixth Street downtown. Campos said she's most fond of the Salmon Creek, Lucia Falls, Lacamas Lake and Waterfront Renaissance trails — all of which offer scenic views of the area.
"I think a lot of people here may not know how many trails we have in Clark County," Campos said.
Walking with family or friends is a great way to begin. Campos said she started jogging with her father when she was 7, and it turned into a lifelong habit.
"He was in the military, and it was a really good way to connect with him and spend time with him," Campos said.
Brian Davis, who organizes several running events around town through his company, Energy Events, said walking some of the county's trails is a great way to begin on the pathway to running.
"My advice is to take it slow," Davis said. "Each person has their own style and ability. My mom started out with a three-mile walk, then moved to a walk/jog, and now she's getting close to jogging her whole path."
Davis likes to emphasize the social and fun aspects of running. Many of his runs, such as the Fort Vancouver Run in March and the Hot Buttered Run in November, include time for socializing, eating, drinking and fun runs for the kids. Each month, he also puts on a free three- to six-mile event called the "What? Group Run!" in Vancouver.
"It's just a grass-roots training group for the Vancouver USA Marathon (which his company also organizes)," Davis said. "We go once a month, and usually end with a meal and some beer. The goal is to get people out there, get them motivated and give them something to look forward to."
Davis' favorite trail is Discovery Historic Loop, which includes the Waterfront Renaissance Trail along the Columbia River and a path along Fort Vancouver and Pearson Field.
He also enjoys the Frenchman's Bar and Burnt Bridge Creek trails.
Maps and guides to those trails are online through the city Walkaround Guide.
For other community runs, Davis recommends checking out the bulletin boards at Fit Right NW and Max Muscle Sports Nutrition's Vancouver stores.
And if you want to create your own route, Campos suggests driving your prospective path first and using your car's odometer to get an accurate mileage reading.
Beyond hoofing it, most of Clark County's trails are also great places for bicyclists, said Lehman Holder, outings leader with the Sierra Club/Loo Wit Group.
"One good ride that's easy to do is what I call the two-bridge loop," Holder said.
He leads organized rides along that route starting in the spring. The ride begins on the south end of Fort Vancouver Way, crosses the I-205 bridge to Portland, follows Marine Drive, crosses back to Vancouver over the I-5 Bridge, passes the Red Lion Hotel at the Quay and loops back to the starting point, he said.
The rides he organizes for the Sierra Club are free, although donations to pay for equipment and training are suggested.
"All the outings I lead are oriented to beginners," Holder said. "And if I can, I like to build in a social element, stopping for coffee and getting to know each other."
Holder also puts together sea kayak events in Ridgefield for the Sierra Club. Those trips are also free, other than the cost of renting the kayaks and equipment from a retailer there.
In the winter, other members of the club organize cross-country skiing events, which are also free.
"We always welcome new people to participate," Holder said. "They don't even have to be a Sierra Club member, although we hope they'll join."
Information for his group's events is available at Sierra Club or by emailing him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Whatever you choose, probably the most important thing to remember is that fitness really can be great fun — and a wonderful opportunity to meet new friends without spending a lot of money, Davis said.
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Brandon Jacobs may be newly retired, but the fire for the game he loves and the New York Giants still burns bright. The former Giants and 49ers running back wasn't happy with his one year he spent in San Francisco and is now letting people know what he thinks of 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh.
The New York Daily News reported on Jan. 24 that Jacobs spent eight seasons with the Giants but back in 2012 he tested the free-agency market and joined the San Francisco 49ers, which Jacobs now says was the biggest mistake of his NFL career.
In an interview with CBS radio, Jacobs describes leaving the Big Apple was a mistake, and oh yeah, he thinks coach Harbaugh is a "b----!"
Wow, that seemed to come out of nowhere.
"I have one regret in my career, and that's going to the 49ers when I could have stayed in New York," Jacobs said. "I just wanted to see what stuff was like with another team and it didn't work out."
"It is what it is," he said. "I've got two rings. Harbaugh, though, he's a bitch. So it doesn't matter."
The trash talking never seems to end in the NFL, not during the off-season and not even when you are retired! You can click here to hear a sound clip of Jacobs interview.


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Points, Vectors, and Functions
Parameterization of Lines
If circles equal pizzas, then lines equal hot dogs. Welcome to Calculus Analogies 101.
What kind of toppings can we put on hot dogs to suit our tastes?
Sample Problem
Begin with mustard and ketchup, the basic toppings. Put your calculator in parametric mode and set the parameter t to go from -10 to 10.
Set your calculator window to have -10 ≤ x ≤ 10 and -10 ≤ y ≤ 10. Then, at the same time, graph the parametric functions
x(t) = 1 + 2t , y(t) = 2 + 3t
x(t) = t, y(t) = 0.5 + 1.5t.
There's only one line on the screen.
That's because both sets of parametric equations are describing the same line.
As with the unit circle, there are infinitely many ways to parametrize any particular line. Multiple correct solutions are possible.
If we graph our solution and the other solution together and see only one line, then we've found a different correct answer.
We'll go through two different ways to parameterize lines. One way is faster, but the other way is useful, too.
The Fast Way
The fast method is most useful for checking parameterizations found using the useful way.
There are two steps to finding the fast parameterization.
- Find the point-slope equation of the line y = mx + b.
- Parametrize by letting x = t and y = mt + b.
The Useful Way
This way of parameterizing is useful because it allows us to choose
- our starting point,
- which direction we travel on the line, and
- how fast we go.
To summarize, when given two points and asked to parameterize the line between them,
- Put t = 0 at one point and t = 1 at the other point.
- Write a line expressing x in terms of t and a line expressing y in terms of t.
Sometimes a problem will specify where t = 0 goes or ask to put them equal to something other than 1 at the other point.
Slopes and Eliminating Parameters
Art ordered a hot dog plain from his favorite drive-through dog vendor. In a hurry to arrive at a picnic with his friends at the park, he drives off without checking to see they gave him what he ordered.
Art arrives at the park only to discover that the poor guy working the speaker at the drive-through thought he ordered relish on his hot dog. Of course, Art is allergic to pickles. He has to get that relish off before he eats it.
Eliminating a parameter from a set of equations is doing just that. We are deconstructing the hot dog (or system of equations) to its most basic form.
Sample Problem
What is the slope of the line that goes through (2, 3) and (7, 9)? Think of it as a normal line, with no parameterizations involved.
The line looks like this:
The slope is
This happens to be the same thing as
It's not a coincidence. Whenever we have parametric equations for a line of the form
the slope of the line will always be
We can do the same thing by eliminating the parameter. We can rearrange the equations
x(t) = 2 + 2t
y(t) = 3 + 6t
by getting rid of the parameter t to figure out what the line is. First, solve the x equation for t.
Then substitute this expression for t in the y equation and simplify.
We've successfully eliminated the parameter t, leaving us with the sort of equation we're used to for a line.
When we eliminate the parameter we lose information. After t has been eliminated we don't know how fast or in which direction the line is drawn. If all we care about is the slope of the line, that's fine.


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Tufts University have just completed the first phase of a study comparing low-glycemic-load and high-glycemic-load diets.Like I said, the Glycemic Index isn't really my bag, and, it doesn't impress Dr. Fuhrman all that much either. Check out some of his thoughts on it:
The results show no significant difference after one year of weight loss.
The research used 34 overweight men and women. Calorie intake was restricted by 30%.
The Low GL diet consisted of 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein, 30% fat.
The High GL diet consisted of 60% carbohydrate, 20% protein, 20% fat.
There are reasons why high glycemic foods may be harmful but just explaining they are high glycemic is not one of them. It is true that a high glycemic response is one of the many features that is present in unhealthy processed foods, but that response is not a significant reason that explains the problem with those foods. There is no reason the glucose and insulin curve must stay blunted for good health. In diabetes research the glycemic index (GI) of carbohydrates has long been recognized as a favorable aid for diabetics to control blood sugar. The same is now often the case in lipid research as it has been demonstrated that high glycemic diets, rich in white flour, refined sweets and processed foods are unfavorable to both glucose levels and lipid parameters. The glycemic index of these foods is not the main reason they are dangerous foods, the main reason is because they are missing nutritional value.The rest of Dr. Fuhrman's opinions on the Glycemic Index are in Processed Carbohydrates, Dr. Atkins, and the Fallacy of Merely Measuring Food on the Glycemic Index.
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The Center for Irish Cultural Studies promotes the study, understanding, and appreciation of Irish and Celtic culture, history, and language through a variety of academic programs, public lectures, music concerts and other performing arts programs, and study abroad at the SHU campus in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland.
The minor in Irish Studies at Sacred Heart University is designed to offer students an opportunity for an in-depth study in one of the most multi-disciplinary studies available in undergraduate programs, including Irish and Celtic culture, history, language, literature, music, politics, religion and society. A distinctive feature of the program is study at SHU's campus in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, and an emphasis on patterns of socio-cultural and political change in contemporary Ireland and the place of Ireland in the modern world.
In addition to offering a minor in Irish Studies, Sacred Heart University also offers undergraduate study abroad experiences, both full semester and two-week sessions.
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June 13, 2016
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Sacred Heart University Professor John B. Roney has been presenting a variety of lectures on understanding the coastal environment in Ireland while on sabbatical in Dingle. The history professor plans to continue this work throughout the spring and summer.
Study Abroad Students Meet U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
February 15, 2016
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — After a semester of academics, adventures and exploration, Sacred Heart University freshmen studying in Dingle, Ireland, met with the U.S. ambassador to that country during one of their last weeks abroad. Several SHU students and faculty members participating in the Freshman Fall in Dingle program spent a few minutes with Ambassador Kevin O'Malley when he visited the thriving fishing port in County Kerry. O'Malley was in town for Ireland's Edge, a conference focusing on the arts and business.
Warrian Speaks on the Challenge of Forgiveness in Northern Ireland
February 25, 2015
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Achieving a lasting and comfortable peace between peoples with differing faiths and abating the fallout from decades of violence are the key challenges in Northern Ireland according to Peter Warrian. This was the focus of his recent talk at Sacred Heart University's Schine Auditorium.


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Beyonce, her husband Jay-Z, and baby Blue Ivy engaged in a public display of affection with a kiss on stage after Queen Bey received the coveted "Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award" on Sunday night, according to US Magazine on Monday morning. Continuing the front that Beyonce has shown since rumors of a more-than-likely separation of music's power couple broke months ago, there was the attempt at showing all's well in the Beyonce Knowles-Jay Carter family once again. Following Beyonce's top notch performance of a medley of songs from her latest recording project and acceptance speech of the award, the family of three gathered on stage for the lip-laden event.
Well choreographed, Jay-Z is the one who presented Bey with the award. The brief moment on stage included the rarity of their baby being in Jay's arms as well. Beyonce has been bending over backwards to give the impression that all is lovey-dovey between her and Jay via social media. She has repeatedly posted such images on Instagram amidst the continual rumors that the two will be separating after their successful "On the Run" tour ends next month in Paris. The tour that has been an extremely successful venture for the couple has reportedly earning $130 million.
During her tearful acceptance speech on Sunday night, Beyonce said that she has nothing to say, but then said she is filled with so much gratitude. The incredibly huge crowd at The Forum in Inglewood, California applauded frantically during the Beyonce moment, according to Hollywood Life. In concluding her speech, Bey said that she just thanks God for the moment and said, "Blue, I love you and to Jay-Z, my beloved, I love you, my fans, I love you, MTV, I love you." Basically, Queen Bey claims to have lots of love for everyone.
Rumors of a separation between Jay-Z and Beyonce went wild following an elevator event in May in which Beyonce's sister, Solange Knowles, slapped Jay down. The stories that emerged from that unfortunate episode are not pretty. Allegedly, sources close to Beyonce say that there are allegations of Jay's cheating on Bey. Other women involved in the marital troubles of the couple involve a very close friendship between Rihanna and Jay.
Other rumors have involved stories of Beyonce not staying with Jay during the entire tour in which they performed together on stage. Also, there are reports stating that she has been looking for a place to live on her own. Also, there have been reports that the two will make public announcements about their relationship – and possible separation – when the "On the Run" tour concludes next month.
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One Direction in Celebs on Sunday
When we woke up on Sunday, we were made up when this landed on our doorstep.
Celebs on Sunday which is free with The Mirror on Sunday had a beautiful 5 page spread on our boys!
We've picked out some of our favourite questions from the interview:
American fans are more forward than Brit ones. Do you come home to find groupies waiting in your bed, that kind of thing?
Zayn: I remember one time, me and Louis were sat by the pool outside our hotel in LA and two or three girls emerged from the bushes – then we turned around and there were like another six coming from the other side, and more and more kept coming. It was like something out of a zombie film. We were like 'What are we going to do?' We found a door that had an entrance back into the hotel and we legged it, being chased by all these girls.
What do you do when girls have hysterical meltdowns?
Harry: Just go in for the embrace, always. Give them a big hug. Sometimes, it calms things, sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't then you're stuck.
When was the last time you did something really normal, like get on a bus or buy a loaf of bread?
Louis: I got on a train recently. I love a train.
Liam: Oh, I like a tube ride.
Harry: I nipped to the shop for a pint of milk yesterday.
What's the worst thing about fame – like do you find it hard to trust people these days? Do you worry about 'kiss and tell' stories?
Harry: I usually trust people until they give me a reason not to. Otherwise you'd just stay in a bubble all the time.
It's probably fair to say that, though we love you all, Harry gets the most attention in the UK, but we hear a rumour Niall is he most popular one over in the USA…
Niall: (Goes a bit red and says…nothing)
Liam: That Irish charm has won them over. When we do 'Little Things' over there, he gets the biggest cheer.
You've just been to Japan. Bet that was quite different to an American Audience…
Harry: The fans are giggly and energetic, but they wont come near you. They don't say anything. No meltdown hugging was needed.
Niall: We did a lot of karaoke while we were there. 'Islands in the Stream', Take That's 'Back for Good', a bit of Shaggy…
So are we going to lose you to America soon? Will you be living in Hollywood mansions this time next year?
Louis: No way, Why would we? It seems like it's expected of us, but we're British boys.
Harry: Definitely not. They don't even know what Toad in The Hole or Branston Pickle is. And if you say bangers and mash, they're like 'Bangers? Bangers and what?' Not good. Time fo go home when that happens.
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Green Ink: California's Waiver and Clean Tech's Woes
Crude oil futures rose above $46 on a glimmer of hope of economic recovery and due to a weaker dollar, Bloomberg reports, even as Saudi Arabia talks up further output cuts to keep shoring up prices. The impact of rising oil prices can be seen in California, where gasoline prices have gone above $2 a gallon, in the L.A. Times.
President Obama has already overturned several of the Bush administration's last-minute environmental rules, but others—including new oil and gas leases—may be trickier to overturn without the help of Congress, in the L.A. Times. One Bush legacy that Team Obama can tackle is California's request to write its own tough emissions rules; new EPA boss Lisa Jackson has repeatedly said greenlighting California is a priority for her. Grist and Earth2Tech have all the details.
California could really be a template for climate action—a new study shows that power-plant emissions limits, like California's, do more to reduce carbon emissions more cheaply than cap-and-trade schemes, in Science Daily.
The clean-energy sector's woes are simple: The crisis trumps government support at this point. That affects everybody from small solar players, in Daily Green, to T. Boone Pickens, who pushed back his wind farm another 2-3 years, at Earth2Tech. Remedies? How about a "wind bank?" Mr. Pickens suggests—carving out part of the $800 billion stimulus money to juice financing for the sector, at CNET. The sector's current troubles explain why Congress is looking at new ways to subsidize renewable energy, at Green Inc.
New studies show that Antarctica has not been immune to the global warming trend, which threatens a huge ice shelf, in the NYT. Joe Romm at Climate Progress has a lot more on why the melting Western ice shelf is a cause for worry.
Finally, lasers might be the answer to more efficient irrigation—by determining air moisture levels, the new gadgets could regulate water use in agriculture, in The Economist. PepsiCo needs some help growing oranges more efficiently after it finds that simply growing the oranges is the biggest part of Tropicana orange juice's carbon footprint, in the NYT.


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BBQ Pulled Chicken and BBQ Nachos are great appetizers for your next gathering. Whether you are having people over to watch the AFC and NFC Championship football games or going tailgating at the stadium, these recipes are delicious, easy, and popular. Watch the short attached video to see how to toss together some BBQ Nachos.
This BBQ Pulled Chicken recipe can be put together quickly and will cook in your slow cooker while you are doing other things. When it's done cooking, it stays hot in the crock pot and your guests can make themselves a sandwich when there is a break in the game.
BBQ Pulled Chicken
- 3-4 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup water
- 1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- sandwich rolls
Place chicken breasts in slow cooker. Stir together BBQ sauce, water, and brown sugar. Pour over chicken breasts, stirring to coat. Cover and cook on high 4-6 hours. Pull chicken apart, shredding it with 2 forks when done cooking. Keep warm in slow cooker, serve on sandwich buns.


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Samsung plans to overtake HTC in smartphone sales this year
We already know that Samsung hopes to sell 270 million phones this year, 100 million of which may be touchscreen devices.
But Samsung's ambitions don't stop here. The South Korean company also plans to increase smartphone production and overtake HTC – currently the world's fourth largest smartphone maker (after Nokia, RIM and Apple).
At the moment, Samsung is the world's fifth smartphone manufacturer with a 3% market share. The company intends to sell about 18 million smartphones by the end of 2010 – up from 6 million in 2009.
Most of this year's Samsung smartphones will be based on Android, although handsets with Windows Mobile and the company's own Bada OS will also be introduced.
(Samsung M100s – the latest Samsung Android smartphone)
HTC is a smartphone maker by default (although it recently announced its first featurephone, the Brew-based HTC Smart), so it will be hard for Samsung to take its place in the smartphone market – especially since HTC will (probably) also increase Android handset production.
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DC beer lovers just got a new reason to celebrate Spring! The countdown to the first annual SpringFest has begun! Capitol City Brewing Company will host its inaugural SpringFest at The Village at Shirlington in Arlington on Saturday, April 26 from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m.
Capitol City will unveil its first batch of seasonal Hefeweizen, a German-style wheat beer, at the 2014 SpringFest. The Sommer Hefeweizen is served unfiltered with distinct notes of banana and clove derived from the fermentation with a special Bavarian yeast strain. In conjunction with the Hefeweizen, Capitol City will also feature several other select handcrafted beer samples. Beer enthusiasts can listen to music spun by local favorite DJ Julius, enjoy cuisine from a variety of Shirlington Village eateries and sample tasteful offerings from more than 40 local breweries including Port City, Mad Fox, Lost Rhino, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, Apocalypse Ale Works, Sunken City and Lickinghole Creek.
Admission is $30 (one general admission pass per person) and includes a wristband, official tasting glass and 10 drink tickets. Additional drink tickets can be purchased for $1 each, with a five-ticket minimum. The event is free for non-drinkers and children. SpringFest will be held rain or shine with tickets sold at the event starting at 11:00 a.m. Following the annual Mid-Atlantic Oktoberfest tradition that started fourteen years ago, Capitol City anticipates thousands of beer aficionados to attend and sample more than 100 different seasonal spring ales and lagers from exhibition booths set up along Campbell Avenue.
For more information on Capitol City Brewing Company, please visit: www.capcitybrew.com.
About Capitol City Brewing Company: In 1992, Capitol City Brewing Company opened its doors as the first brewpub in the nation's capital since Prohibition, giving its citizens and many visitors the freedom to enjoy some of the finest handcrafted beer in the country. On the front of the menu is the Lady Freedom, a statue found atop our namesake, the United States Capitol. Our dedicated brewers use only the highest quality hops, yeast and select malt to brew many of the world's great ales and lagers. Capitol City's state-of-the-art craft brewing system is located in our Arlington, VA restaurant, where our talented brewers closely monitor each phase of the brewing process and provide beer within hours of completion, fresh and locally made. The popular brewpub is celebrating 21 years of brewing more than 200 different styles of beer in the national capital region.


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Date: Saturday, November 16, 1996
Seniors Take Jones Stadium Farewell Bow: Texas Tech (5-4, 4-3) steps out of Big 12 Conference action for its final home contest of the season against the Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (5-5) at 1 p.m. at Jones Stadium. The contest will mark the final home appearance in Jones Stadium for 19 Red Raider seniors, including eight starters (five offense, three defense).
Texas Tech can clinch its fourth-straight regular-season winning record and school-record fourth-straight bowl appearance with a win against USL. A win would also clinch the sixth bowl game in Spike Dykes' 10 seasons at Texas Tech. In addition, a crowd of at least 38,100 fans would set an all-time Texas Tech football attendance record.
Last Week: Despite a record-setting offensive outing against Texas, the Red Raiders dropped a 38-32 Big 12 Conference game to the Longhorns in front of the third-straight sellout in Jones Stadium last Saturday. The game showcased 1,183 total yards of offense, the most-ever combined total ever in Jones Stadium, as well as 70 total points, the second-highest total ever between Texas Tech and Texas.
After falling behind 28-3 in the second quarter, quarterback Zebbie Lethridge led a Tech comeback that saw the Red Raider quarterback complete two passes to Donnie Hart, an 86-yard TD and an 82-yard strike that just fell short of a score prior to the half. Tech outscored the 'Horns 29-10 down the stretch.
The Coaches
Television/Radio: All Sports Radio Network is in its second year of broadcasting Texas Tech football on a network of 25 stations. KKAM/KFMX in Lubbock serves as the flagship station and veteran Jack Dale will return at play-by-play and John Harris will offer color commentary. KKAM will begin its pregame show three hours before kickoff, while KFMX will begin 45 minutes prior to gametime. KKAM will also broadcast postgame shows with each game. Game broadcasts can also be accessed live via Teamline at 800/846-4700, ext. 1752 or via the Internet through the Texas Tech web site at http://www.asrn.com.
There is no television coverage of the Texas Tech v. USL contest. However, Texas Tech will provide a satellite feed of highlights from 5-5:15 p.m. The coordinates are SBS 6, Transponder 6.
Series Records: Texas Tech and Southwestern Louisiana have only met once on the gridiron, with the Red Raiders claiming a 39-7 victory on Nov. 12, 1994 in the final game of the season in Jones Stadium. Following a Texas Tech open date, the Red Raiders rolled to 423 yards against the 16th-ranked defense of USL. Quarterback Zebbie Lethridge passed for 168 yards in the game, including a 33-yard TD strike to receiver Tony Darden to open the scoring in the first quarter. The win marked Tech's seventh in its last eight home games and clinched at least a split in non-conference games for the first time since 1989. Freshman Byron Hanspard led Tech in rushing with 79 yards on 20 carries.
Mr. October: Head coach Spike Dykes has compiled an impressive 41-17-1 record after October 10 while at Texas Tech. Since 1993, Dykes' teams have recorded a 18-5-0 record after Oct. 10. This season, Tech is 2-2 and has two games left to play.
During its past 13 home games, Texas Tech owns an 11-2 record, and is 2-1 against ranked teams, including a 33-9 win over No. 19 Texas in '94 and a 14-7 win over No. 8 Texas A&M in 1995.
Tech has also averaged a 24.7-point margin of victory during its last 11 wins in Jones Stadium and has averaged 38.5 points per game.
Streaks: Tech's 11-game home winning streak dating back to a 42-16 loss to top-ranked Nebraska on Sept. 8, 1994 was ended with its 24-10 loss to fifth-ranked Nebraska ...
Byron Hanspard recorded his 15th-straight rushing game over 100 yards against Texas. He also rushed for over 200-yards in four straight games earlier this season.
Texas Tech has won eight of its last 10 games over conference opponents at home since a 1993 loss to Texas A&M in Jones Stadium. That does not include two conference games against Houston (San Antonio) and Oklahoma State (Irving) that were Tech home games moved to neutral sites.
Texas Tech has played its last five games on television and has played 10 of its last 11 games on television, including three ABC regional network appearances, and three national cable appearances on Fox Sports, ESPN and ESPN2.
Tech on Pace to Set Attendance Record: With three-straight sellouts against Baylor, Nebraska and Texas and three of the top 10 crowds since 1983, fans have been attending Texas Tech football games in record numbers this season. The inaugural season of the Big 12 Conference, a Heisman Trophy candidate running back and and exciting football team have all contributed to the rise in interest in Texas Tech football. The expansion of Raider Alley and a number of interesting promotions have been factors as well.
This year, Tech has enjoyed a 22.6 percent increase in attendance over last season and its current average of 48,081 for the first four games exceeds the school record average of 46,083 set in 1979. That season, the Raiders played six home games and recorded two crowds in excess of 52,000. Last season, Tech recorded a 27 percent increase in football attendance, good for 7th in the nation and marked an average increase of 8,200 fans from the previous season.
Texas Tech has enjoyed an astounding 50.1 percent attendance increase over the past two seasons!
Possession -- Texas Tech: This season Texas Tech has maintained a substantial edge in time of possession in six of the nine games it has played. The only three games in which Tech did not enjoy an edge in possession time was Oklahoma State (31-3 win), Utah State (58-20 win) and Texas (38-32 loss). Tech has held the ball for over 44 total minutes more than the opposition this season. The Red Raiders have averaged a five minute edge in time of possession this season.
Veterans Anchors Offensive Line: As a three-year starter, senior offensive lineman Ben Kaufman has probably played more snaps at Texas Tech than any player to wear a Red Raider uniform. And he has become, perhaps, the top offensive lineman in the Big 12 Conference. Offensive line coach Ted Unbehagen has stated that Kaufman is "easily one of the best offensive lineman in the Big 12. If there is an all-Big 12 team that doesn't include Ben Kaufman, they shouldn't choose one."
The Texas Tech offensive line has gone through a few changes this season. Only Kaufman at left tackle and Jay Pugh at center have started all nine games at the same position. Lynn Scherler has moved into the starting right tackle position for the last eight games; Shane Dunn has started five games at right guard, four others at left guard. Chris Whitney has started three different positions -- one game at right tackle, two games at right guard and the last six at left guard; Justin Collingsworth moved from backup at left tackle to right tackle.
Senior captain Casey Jones returned to action for the first time this season against Nebraska after missing the first six games of the season in attempt to regain his eligibility. After exhausting all appeals through the school and the NCAA, Jones went to the court system. A Lubbock judge awarded a temporary injuction clearing the way for Jones to play.
Red Zone Kind To Red Raiders: Texas Tech has enjoyed a success rate inside the 20-yard line this season on both sides of the ball. The Red Raider offense has scored on 75 percent of its possessions in the "red zone", while limiting opponents to just a 66 percent success rate inside the 20-yard-line.
Robert Johnson Provides Leadership: "Pound-for-pound, Robert Johnson may be the best football player in the country" -- Liberty Sports analyst Ron Thulin during the Texas A&M vs. Texas Tech telecast
Senior strongside linebacker Johnson continues to toss his 194-pound frame into play-after-play this season. For his stellar performance against Nebraska, which included an interception for a TD, Johnson was awarded the ABC-TV Chevrolet Player of the Game.
Tech's leading tackler with 89 total stops in nine games, Johnson had perhaps his best game as a Red Raider against Utah State. The Lubbock native intercepted two Aggie passes and recovered a fumble and led the Red Raiders to a 58-20 win in their home opener in Jones Stadium. He was named the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week.
"I don't know if we have ever had anyone play as well as Robert Johnson played here against Utah State. It was unbelievable what he did. He is quite a football player and he really played his best game since he's been at Texas Tech. He was all over the field," said Dykes.
Johnson is the team's leading tackler with 89 in the first nine games this season. He has 50 solo tackles, three interceptions and five tackles for loss.
Dane Johnson Enters 1,000-Yard Club: Junior safety Dane Johnson has surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for returns in his career. The Southlake native has 1,031 total yards in punt, kick and interception returns in his career. He was a preseason all-Big 12 selection at punt returner this season and has quietly been one of the leaders for the Red Raider defense.
Daniels Named Semifinalist for Nagurski Trophy: One of the few defensive players in the Big 12 that can alter an offensive gameplan, junior All-America candidate Tony Daniels is making a strong bid to be included as one of the top defensive performers in the nation. Daniels was recently named one of 23 semifinalists for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy given to the nation's top defensive player.
In the first nine games, the Odessa native has recorded an outstanding 10 tackles for loss, three sacks, four fumbles caused and four fumble recoveries. In Tech's 13-10 win at Texas A&M, Daniels recorded two crucial sacks to end the Aggies' final two potential game-winning drives.
Against Georgia he had a key stuff of quarterback Mike Bobo on an option play that caused a key fumble at the Tech eight-yard-line that ended a potential go-ahead Bulldog score early in the game. Against Oklahoma State, Daniels had three tackles for loss. Against Texas A&M, Daniels recorded key sacks in the Aggies final two drives to key the 13-10 victory in College Station.
Daniels sat out the entire 1995 season after a freak injury diving into a pool prior to preseason drills. After undergoing reconstructive surgery on his knee, the Odessa native used the '95 season to focus on his comeback.
Diminutive Mitchell One of Nation's Smallest: Starting junior flanker Stacy Mitchell, who stands 5-5, 150-pounds, is the third smallest player in Division I football this season. The DeSoto native is also a key kickoff returner for the Red Raiders and is a major threat on the ground after the catch. Mitchell overcame an early-season sprained ankle last season, starting the final five games and catching a 47-yard pass against Texas, and a 38-yard TD against Air Force in the Copper Bowl He also had a 49-yard run on a reverse against Rice. Mitchell recorded three catches for 69 yards against Kansas State.
Hanspard Maintains Record-Setting Pace: With his streak-extending 132-yard effort against Texas, junior Heisman Trophy candidate Byron Hanspard is on pace to set several school records this week with his 193.7 per game average. His 1,743 total yards this season is the second-highest single-season total in Texas Tech history.
Against Baylor, Hanspard had become the first back in the nation to pass the 1,000-yard mark this season. He has also gone over 1,000 yards in fewer games than any back in Tech history. Hanspard passed the 1,000-yard mark in the first five games, while Byron Morris in 1993 and James Hadnot in 1978 and 1979 achieved the mark during the eighth game of the season.
The Heisman Trophy and Doak Walker Award candidate is averaging 6.4 yards per carry and has surpassed the 200-yard barrier in four games this season. He has rushed for over 100 yards in 14 straight games. Hanspard recorded a 287-yard school-record outing against Baylor. (see Hanspard Bio)
The junior from DeSoto is the third-leading returning scorer in the nation this season, after averaging 9.82 points per game last season. A preseason All-America selection, Hanspard averaged 223 yards per game in his final three games of last season, including 260 yards against Air Force in the Copper Bowl, where he was named the game's MVP. He rushed for 1,374 yards last season, the second-best sophomore performance in the Southwest Conference's 82-year history. He also led the team with 35 catches for 474 yards.
Hanspard's Career Stats Rush Yds Avg TDs Rec Yds Avg TDs 1994 173 761 4.4 5 11 230 20.9 1 1995 248 1374 5.5 11 35 474 13.5 7 1996 274 1743 6.4 9 16 176 11.0 1 Total 695 3878 5.6 25 62 880 14.2 9
Lethridge Continues to Move Up Tech Charts: Junior quarterback Zebbie Lethridge is listed among the top-five on the school charts for career passing yards, pass attempts, pass completions, total offense and TD passes. Last year he set a final Southwest Conference record with 211 consecutive passes without an interception, which will stand as the all-time SWC mark. Last season Lethridge recorded the most prolific sophomore season ever for a Red Raider with 1,885 passing yards, 22 total TDs and 2,022 yards in total offense.
Lethridge's Career Stats Att Comp Pct Yds Int TD Eff Rush Yds Avg. TD 1994 261 132 .506 1596 6 12 112.0 110 289 2.6 6 1995 281 136 .484 1885 6 13 115.7 122 137 1.1 9 1996 225 98 .436 1429 5 9 105.7 112 275 2.5 4 Total 767 366 .477 4910 17 34 332 629 1.9 19
Greaser Goes Long: Sophomore kicker Jaret Greaser has connected on two of the nine longest field goals in school history this season. He made a 55-yarder against Texas, which cleared the upright with plenty of room to spare and landed in the grassy area of Jones Stadium. He laos made a 53-yarder at Kansas State. His prep career-high was a 59-yarder while competing at Amarillo H.S.
He tied a school record with four field goals against Oklahoma State and converted five-straight attempts this season, including a 53-yarder at Kansas State. He made attempts of 40, 40, 42 and 37 yards against the Cowboys to tie the mark held by five players on seven occasions, the most recent by Lin Elliott against Cal State, Fullerton in 1991. Greaser narrowly missed a 54-yard game-tying field goal with just :07 on the clock at Georgia on the wet Sanford Stadium grass. He is 8-for-12 this season.
Junior Tony Rogers and Greaser both nailed 53-yard field goals at Kansas State, tying the sixth-longest effort in Texas Tech history. Both kicks also were the longest for a Texas Tech kicker since Ricky Gann hit a 55-yarder against Houston in 1984.
For the first time in the award's history, two kickers from the same team were honored with the AT&T Long Distance award when Texas Tech's Jaret Greaser and Tony Rogers both connected on 53-yard field goals at Kansas State. In honor of the accomplishment, AT&T has donated $400 to the NCAA's Degree-Completion Scholarship Program and each player will be awarded an engraved plaque in recognition of the achievement.
Hernandez Wins AT&T Long Distance Award: Junior punter Jeremy Hernandez, with is 53.3-yard punting average against Baylor, was the recipient of the weekly AT&T Long Distance Award given to the nation's best punting average in a single game. Hernandez is currently averaging 42.4 yards per punt and has been among the national leaders all season. Hernandez was awarded the starting job during the pregame warm-ups for the first game of the season at Kansas State. At that point, Dykes had not named a permanent starter.
Darden Looking For... Quadfecta?: Junior Tony Darden intercepted the first pass of his career as a defensive back against OSU and achieved the first of a unique hat trick in the process. With an interception return for a TD, he would achieve a rare quadruple: A TD rushing, passing, receiving and by interception. During his career, Darden has thrown a pass, caught a pass and has now intercepted a pass. He has also thrown for, rushed for and caught a touchdown. He caught his second interception of the year against Utah State and third at Kansas.
Darden came to Texas Tech in 1993 as one of the most celebrated quarterbacks in the Texas high school record books. At San Antonio's Holmes High School, Darden became the state's third-leading TD passer with 45 as a senior in 1992. He threw for 3,235 yards and had at least two TD passes in every game.
After redshirting in 1993, Darden switched to the receiver position midway through his freshman season after competing at quarterback with current starter Zebbie Lethridge. Last season an ankle injury slowed his progress after he started the first five games. He caught seven passes for 47-yards in the Copper Bowl. Last spring, Darden moved to cornerback and is the starting left slot.
Defense: Despite losing five starters from last season, the Tech defense has risen to the occasion this season. Coordinator John Goodner's squad is ranked 21st nationally in pass defense and limited Nebraska and Texas A&M both under 55 yards passing. Prior to the 4th quarter of the Georgia contest, the Tech defense had not allowed an offensive TD in nine-straight quarters of play, dating back to the Kansas State 2nd quarter. In addition, Tech had not allowed an opponent to convert a fourth-down this season until late in the Georgia game.
Texas Tech's defense returns six starters in 1996 as well as junior Tony Daniels. Last year the Red Raider defense finished third nationally in pass efficiency, 19th in turnover margin and 24th in scoring defense. Last season the Tech defense averaged almost 11 tackles behind the line of scrimmage per game.
Scovell Pursuing Medical Career: Tech's second-leading receiver in 1995 with 16 catches for 303 yards, Field Scovell graduated last spring with a 3.699 grade point average in finance. The two-time GTE Academic All-District VI selection is taking undergraduate courses this fall in preparation for medical school. He missed Tech's first scrimmage during two-a-days to take the medical school entrance examination (MCAT). He caught TD passes against Baylor and Utah State and is averaging 15.7 yards per catch. He also completed his first career pass on a successful fake field goal toss to Sammy Morris against KSU.


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‡‡Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie et Nutrition, Clinique des Maladies du Foie, CHU de Nice et Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, UFR de Médecine, Nice, France
Received 7 September, 2008
Accepted 9 February, 2009
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Amandine Rubio, Hôpital de l'Archet, 151 route de Saint Antoine de Ginestière, 06202 Nice Cedex 3, France (e-mail: email@example.com).
F.T., A.T. and S.T. were supported by a grant from Association Indigo (Pr Antoine Thyss, Mme Mireille Goy-Kreitmann), Hôpital Lenval pour Enfants, Nice, France.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Objectives: Progressive liver injury is a concern in HIV-infected children exposed to long-term antiretroviral drugs and to the cytopathic effect of HIV. Yet liver biopsy is usually considered too invasive to be repeated in these patients. The aims of this study are to evaluate the feasibility of noninvasive hepatic investigations in HIV-1-infected children, assess the prevalence of signs of liver affection, and analyse the influence of the HIV disease severity and the exposure to antiretroviral therapy.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted in 26 HIV-1 vertically infected children ages 8 to 18 years old. Liver function was assessed with standard serum biochemical markers, FibroTest, ActiTest, SteatoTest, Forns index, aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index, ultrasound, and Fibroscan.
Results: Nineteen (>60%) children had signs of liver affection on at least 1 of the test results: 13 (50%) had elevated liver enzymes, 15 (63%), 8 (33%), 5 (21%), and 5 (21%) had abnormal FibroTest, ActiTest, Forns index, and aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index results, respectively. Four children (17%) had mild liver steatosis on ultrasound. Fibroscan measures were significantly higher in patients than in age-matched healthy children. Patients with elevated Fibroscan measures also had significantly higher FibroTest results. Age, HIV stage N in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classification and exposure duration to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor drugs were the main risk factors for hepatotoxicity.
Conclusions: More than half of our population of HIV-infected children had biological and/or radiological signs of liver affection. Regular follow-up of liver function is necessary in these patients, which is now possible with noninvasive procedures.
During the mid-1990s, the development of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) resulted in a significant decrease in morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected children (1–3). Nevertheless, many chronically HIV-infected patients exposed to HAART suffer from various kinds of toxicity (4–7). In HIV-positive adults, liver disease is becoming one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality (8–11). Liver affection in HIV infection stems from several nonexclusive processes including a direct cytopathic effect of the HIV on liver cells (12,13), medication-related hepatotoxicity (14), opportunistic infection such as tuberculosis, HIV-induced metabolic conditions such as steatosis and steatohepatitis (15), and eventual concomitant chronic hepatitis B viruses or hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Children are particularly exposed to cumulative drug-related hepatotoxicity because of a longer life expectancy and the need for long-term control of viral replication (2,16). Furthermore, young children tend to have higher viral loads (17,18) and unfavourable pharmacokinetics profiles for some HAART drugs because of hepatic metabolism or enzyme polymorphism (19,20). Early recognition of hepatic events can improve the safe and effective use of HAART and enhance the survival of HIV-infected patients. Recently, Soriano et al (9) proposed a strategy for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of antiretroviral drug-related liver injury.
Nevertheless, to date, few studies exploring different parameters of liver function have been conducted in HIV-infected children. Only 2 studies published in 1999 and 2003 reported data from liver biopsy in these patients (21,22). Results in terms of Metavir scores were rather reassuring, but seem insufficient for formal conclusions. Furthermore, although liver biopsy remains the gold standard for liver assessment (23), its invasiveness, sampling errors, variability in interpretation, and expense do not make it an ideal routine follow-up examination (24,25). Recognition of hepatotoxicity in patients, therefore, routinely relies on the quantification of serum liver enzymes, but their poor correlation with histological features in liver disease (26,27) and the lack of a homogenous definition for hepatotoxicity (8) render serum liver enzymes insufficient for monitoring liver condition on a regular basis.
During the last decade, new noninvasive biological and radiological tools allowing repeated assessment of the liver have been developed. These tests, respectively, are analyse hepatic fibrosis (FibroTest [FT], Forns index, aspartate aminotransferase [AST] to platelet ratio index [APRI] and transient elastography), necroinflammatory activity (ActiTest [AT]), and liver steatosis (SteatoTest [ST]). FibroTest, AT, and ST (BioPredictive, Paris, France) are patented artificial intelligence algorithms comprising routinely available laboratory serum markers with excellent diagnosis and prognosis accuracy (28–33). Forns index identifies patients without significant liver fibrosis (Metavir stages F0–F1) with a high accuracy (34), whereas APRI detects patients with advanced fibrosis (>F2) and cirrhosis with a good sensibility (35–37). Transient elastography (TE) or Fibroscan (EchoSens, Paris, France) is a novel, rapid, and totally painless bedside method to assess liver elasticity on the basis of 1-dimensional transient elastography (38). Transient elastography measures are well correlated with advanced stages of fibrosis and cirrhosis in adults and children (39–41).
The aims of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of noninvasive hepatic procedures in HIV-infected children in routine follow-up and to determine the gross prevalence of liver affection in this population. We searched for the existence of correlations between the biological algorithms FT/AT/ST results and the degree of liver tissue impairment measured by TE (stiffness) and ultrasound (steatosis). We also conducted an analysis on the influence of HIV disease severity and exposure to HAART on hepatotoxicity.
We conducted a cross-sectional study in HIV-1 chronically infected children followed at the University Hospital of Nice, Department of Paediatric Haematology. Inclusion criteria were materno-foetal transmission, age 8 to 18 years, life expectancy >6 months, Lansky score (42) >70%, and informed parental consent and child assent.
Patients' sex, age, weight, height, nadir CD4 T-cell count (lowest CD4 count in the patient's medical history), highest viral load, HIV staging according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification (43), past and present exposure to HAART drugs, and exposure duration for each drug were recorded. Patients were considered to be in a prepubertal stage in the absence of breast development for girls and with a testicular volume below 4 mL for boys (44). The existence of lipoatrophy or lipohypertrophy was assessed by 2 practitioners for each child according to the European Paediatric Lipodystrophy Group definition (45). Peripheral blood T lymphocytes and subclass assays (CD4, CD8) were conducted by flow cytometry. Real-time plasma HIV RNA values were determined using the Cobas Ampliprep-Cobas TaqMan HIV Monitor assay (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Undetectable viral load was defined as polymerase chain reaction-RNA below 1.60 log10 or 40 copies per mm3.
All of the blood samples were collected after an overnight fasting. Total bilirubin, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), apolipoprotein A1, and total cholesterol and triglycerides measurements were evaluated according to the manufacturer's instructions on the same automate (Integra 800, Roche Diagnostic).
FibroTest and AT combine the quantitative results of 6 serum biochemical markers (α-2 macroglobulin, haptoglobin, GGT, total bilirubin, apolipoprotein A1, and ALT) in patented algorithms (29). SteatoTest includes the patient's weight and height and 9 serum biochemical markers (AST, total cholesterol, and triglycerides in addition to the previous 6 markers) (30). As recommended by Biopredictive, values <0.25 for these tests were considered normal.
Forns index combines age, platelet count, GGT, and cholesterol in the following formula: 7.811 − 3.131.ln(platelet count) + 0.781.ln(GGT) + 3.467.ln(age) − 0.014(cholesterol). As recommended by Forns et al (34), values <4.21 were considered normal.
APRI is the ratio of the quantitative AST result to the platelet count. As recommended by Wai et al (35), values >1 were considered normal.
The TE technique is used to quantify hepatic fibrosis in a totally noninvasive and painless manner, with no contraindications for the patient. A mechanical pulse is generated at the skin surface, which is propagated through the liver. The velocity of the wave is measured by ultrasound. This velocity is directly correlated to the stiffness of the liver, which reflects the degree of fibrosis. All of the measurements were performed according to the manufacturer's instructions (Echosens, Paris, France) by the same trained operator (R.T.). Patients were placed in supine decubitus position with the right arm in abduction. The probe was placed between 2 ribs. The measurement area was located by A-mode images provided by the probe transducer. Ten measurements were performed for each patient. The median value was assumed to be representative of liver stiffness. A set of measurements was considered to be reliable if the success rate was at least 60% and the interquartile range was less than one third of the median liver stiffness value. Because the limiting factor for TE in children is the distance between 2 ribs, only children older than 8 years were included in the study. Indeed, at the time we conducted this study the adapted children probe was unavailable.
Because TE norms have not yet been established in healthy children devoid of liver disease, a control cohort of 19 healthy sex- and age-matched children was included. A TE was performed by the same operator in the same conditions as for the HIV-positive patients.
Patients underwent abdominal ultrasound to detect liver steatosis and fibrosis. Because ultrasound is considered to be operator dependent, the examination was performed twice by 2 separate radiologists (C.B., C.L.).
Results are expressed as mean and range values. For biochemical standard hepatic markers, data are also furnished as multiples of the upper limit norm for age and sex to preclude age and sex influence. To confirm immunovirological stability for each patient, the latest and ongoing values for CD4 T-cell counts and percentages and for HIV-1 polymerase chain reaction-RNA were compared using the Wilcoxon signed rank test for paired groups. Comparisons of qualitative parameters were done with the Fisher exact test. Correlations between quantitative values used regression model. Adjusted R2 values (adjusted R2) are furnished. Quantitative results between subgroups of patients were compared with the Mann-Whitney U test. All of the statistical analyses were performed using Statview software 5.0 for Windows (SAS Institute, Cary, NC). P values below 0.05 are considered to indicate statistical significance.
Twenty-six HIV-1 chronically infected children were included. There were 15 girls and 11 boys, with a median age of 12.9 years (8.3–17.3). Twenty-three patients were monoinfected, 3 were HIV–HCV coinfected. Five were HIV stage N of the CDC classification, 5 were stage A, 8 were stage B, and 7 suffered from AIDS definition illness (stage C). HIV CDC status could not be determined for 1 child because of the lack of past information (orphan).
At inclusion, mean weight was 44.1 kg (18.4–83.5) and mean height was 149.6 cm (116–175). The mean body mass index was 19.1 kg/m2 (13.7–29.9), which corresponds to the 44th percentile or a −0.15 SD for age and sex. Fifteen patients (58%) had lipodystrophy: 9 had peripheral lipoatrophy and 6 had central hypertrophy. No patient had hepatomegaly or jaundice at inclusion or in the past medical history.
Upon inclusion, mean nadir CD4 T-cell count was 345 cells/mm3 (10–870) and nadir CD4 percentage was 16.2% (2–36). The highest measured viral load in the patients' history was 5.69 log10 copies/mm3 on average (3.20–6.18). Mean CD4 T-cell count at inclusion was 699 cells/mm3 (164–1252) or 30.6% (9.4–45%), with a viral load of 3.79 log10 copies/mm3 (1.60–4.83). Eleven children had undetectable viral load. Patients' immunological and virological status was stable as no differences were found between CD4 T-cell counts, percentages, and viral loads when comparing data study values and those measured at the last assessment for each patient.
Each child had been exposed to an average of 6.5 antiretroviral therapy drugs since birth (2–12): 4.2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) (2–7), 0.7 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) (0–2), and 1.6 protease inhibitors (PI) (0–4). The drugs most frequently prescribed were lamivudine (92% of the children) for a mean duration of 59 months (4–113), stavudine (77%) during an average of 61 months (5–129), and zidovudine (69%) for an average of 54 months (1–118). The most prescribed PIs were the combination of ritonavir and lopinavir (65%) for a mean duration of 32 months (1–80) and nelfinavir (35%) for an average of 48 months (17–105). Efavirenz and nevirapine were prescribed in, respectively, 58% and 11.5% of the patients. At the time of enrollment, 11 patients received conventional HAART with 2 NRTIs and 1 PI, 6 received 2 NRTIs + 1 NNRTI, 2 patients were receiving dual NRTI association, 1 was receiving triple NRTI combination, and 2 were receiving 1 drug of each class (NRTI+NNRTI+PI). Four children were on planned treatment interruption.
All of the patients underwent blood testing, 23 had an abdominal ultrasound, and 21 had a Fibroscan. For the latter, the average measurement success rate was 96.7%. Five children did not have a Fibroscan and 3 did not have ultrasound because the devices or the operator was unavailable on the day they consulted. The 2 youngest children failed in having a TE measure because of technical difficulties because of their small corpulence. Twenty-six results were obtained for FT, AT, and ST. Two patients were excluded from FT and AT analyses because of aberrant scores. Global results for standard biological hepatic markers, noninvasive algorithm tests, and TE are reported in Table 1. Nine female patients (60%) had elevated AST and 4 (27%) had abnormal ALT. Fifteen patients (63%) had abnormal FT values and 8 (33%) had excessive AT scores. A distinction between results of the 23 HIV monoinfected and the 3 HIV–HVC co-infected patients is exposed in Table 2.
Four children (17%) had signs of mild liver steatosis on ultrasound. HIV-infected patients had significantly higher TE measures than matched healthy control children (P = 0.014, Table 3). Furthermore, loss of elasticity assessed by TE measures tended to increase with age in a linear manner in patients (adjusted R2 = 0.208, P < 0.03), but not in healthy controls (Fig. 1).
For the 19 patients who underwent successful TE, results for TE, FT, and AT were compared. Patients with abnormal FT results also had significantly higher TE measures than patients with normal FT (P = 0.01) in spite of similar ages. Abnormal FT results were also associated with higher AT scores (P = 0.02, Table 4). The 4 patients with steatosis on ultrasound had normal ST results.
We did not find any difference in terms of hepatic parameters regarding sex, pubertal stage, and existence or type of lipodystrophy. Significant differences were observed between asymptomatic patients (N stage of CDC classification) and all of the symptomatic children (stages A, B, C) (Table 5). N stage patients were on average older and had been exposed to more NRTI and PI drugs with longer exposure durations. They also had significantly higher FT results, Forns index, and TE measures (Table 5).
We analysed the relation between the exposure to HAART drugs and the observed hepatic abnormalities. There were statistical correlations between the total number of NRTI drugs since birth and Forns index (adjusted R2: 0.19, P = 0.03), and between the total number of NNRTI drugs and AT (adjusted R2: 0.24, P = 0.008). Considering individual HAART agents of each class for which at least 50% of all patients had been exposed, no drug demonstrated significantly associated hepatotoxicity.
A decade after the widespread use of HAART in the management of chronically HIV-infected children, there has been growing concern about their long-term toxicity. Surprisingly few paediatric data are available concerning liver toxicity. Liver biopsy, the gold standard for liver assessment, is an invasive procedure in paediatric practice. In the past, major indications for liver biopsy in HIV-1-monoinfected patients were persistent biological hepatic abnormalities, hepatomegaly, jaundice, and unexplained prolonged fever (21). The most common biopsy-derived diagnosis was opportunistic infections, mainly mycobacterium avium complex (46). As prevalence of opportunistic infections has dramatically decreased (47), there has been a reduction in liver biopsy indications. We did not conduct a liver biopsy in our patients because none had any of the recognized biopsy indications (21). Noninvasive procedures allowing harmless and repeated assessment of liver status and function were recently developed. We considered that these investigations could be useful tools in the management of HIV-1 chronically infected children in whom repeated liver biopsies could not be done.
In this cross-sectional study a high proportion of HIV-infected children showed biological signs of liver affection, with 12 patients presenting with elevated liver enzymes (AST, ALT, or both), 63% and 33% abnormal FT and AT results, respectively. Four patients (17%) had signs of mild steatosis on ultrasound in our cohort, whereas the prevalence of fatty liver in a school-age population is estimated to be around 2.6% to 5% (48,49). This high prevalence is concordant with that published by Gil et al (50), but would need to be confirmed in larger cohorts. Nevertheless, none of the ST results was abnormal for these 4 patients. This suggests either that ST is not sensitive enough for the detection of mild steatosis in children or that steatosis had been incorrectly identified on ultrasound. Although hepatic fibrosis has never been demonstrated in HIV-monoinfected children, we found biological (FT, Forns index) and radiological (TE) evidence of liver fibrosis in our patients. We did not find any ultrasound sign of fibrosis, either because it was absent or early or because of the poor sensitivity of ultrasound fibrosis detection (51). It is nonetheless possible that these perturbations reflect nonspecific injury rather than a true fibrotic process. Unfortunately, none of our patients had a liver biopsy to evaluate this possibility.
The only significant correlations that could be evidenced concerning the exposure to HAART drugs and the degree of hepatotoxicity were between the exposure duration to NRTI and Forns index, and between the exposure duration to NNRTI and AT results. Forns index and AT are recognized, respectively, as good indicators of mild liver fibrosis and of hepatic necroinflammatory injury (29,34). These correlations are, therefore, compatible with an infraclinical mechanism of continuous hepatic toxicity. The underlying mechanisms of HAART-derived liver toxicity are intricate and still poorly understood. Mechanisms proposed for NRTI-related toxicity include mitochondrial dysfunction caused by inhibition of mitochondrial DNA polymerase leading to steatosis and potential lactic acidosis (9,52,53). NNRTI-associated toxicity appears to be the result of hypersensitivity reactions (9,54,55). Indirect toxicity has also been reported through abnormalities of lipid and/or glycemic regulation, with lesions similar to those observed in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (56). It is also possible that besides the direct effect of HAART on hepatocytes, variations in the intrahepatic immune system participate in this toxicity.
We recognise that there are several limits to this study. We acknowledge the fact that all of the algorithms we used have never been validated in children or in HIV-monoinfected patients. Nevertheless, we considered that even if the pathogenic processes leading to hepatic injury in HCV, HIV, or co-infected patients are multifactorial, their consequences are univocal at the cellular level, resulting in inflammation and/or necrosis.
Transient elastography has been used in various hepatic pathological conditions (38–41,57–59). Paediatric published data mainly imply children with primary liver disease (hepatitis B virus, HCV, biliary atresia) or with affections with well-recognized liver impact (cystic fibrosis, Wilson disease) (40). Because TE norms have been established in healthy adults (5.49 ± 1.49 kPa) (60) but not in children, age- and sex-matched controls were included. In our cohort, the average TE score was significantly higher in HIV-infected children than in controls. Furthermore, the liver's stiffness tended to increase with age in a linear manner in patients. It remains unclear whether this relation persists after the age of 18 years or if the curve flattens and the liver elasticity stabilises. This correlation between age and liver stiffness was found only among the HIV-infected children. We, therefore, hypothesised that HIV infection and/or continuous exposure to HAART were responsible for this relation. Compared with symptomatic patients, N-stage children had the longest exposure duration to NRTI and had higher FT, Forns index, and TE scores. This strongly suggests that HAART exposure is the leading cause of hepatic injury, assuming that viral replication is (at least partially) under control. We also found that children with abnormal values for biochemical algorithms, FT mainly, had increased liver stiffness compared to age-matched patients. Transient elastography and biochemical algorithms, therefore, seem to be potent complementary and concordant methods of noninvasive liver investigations.
Our results confirm that evaluation of hepatic disease with noninvasive procedures is feasible in HIV-1 chronically infected children. These patients are at risk for liver dysfunction as a consequence of their infection and, possibly, its treatment. This risk seems to increase with time. Biological and radiological signs of liver injury should, therefore, be monitored on a regular basis.
The authors thank all of the participating children and their families; Prof Marc Albertini, Prof Etienne Bérard for helpful advice on the research protocol; Dr Nicolas Sirvent for critical comments on the text; the radiologists who performed the abdominal ultrasounds: Dr Carole Leroux and Dr Corinne Boyer; Dr Frederic Berthier for advice on statistical analysis; and Marie Soumah, Christelle Falzon. Dr Céline Caruba for information on biochemical technologies.
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Antiretroviral therapy; FibroTest; Hepatotoxicity; HIV-1; Transient elastography
© 2009 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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