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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is transmitted by contact with infected blood, breast milk, semen, or vaginal fluids. This virus attacks an infected person's immune cells and makes them vulnerable to other infections. If left untreated, the virus can lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Currently, there is no cure or vaccine for HIV, but improved medical treatment now allows people living with HIV to experience full and healthy lives. Regular screening for HIV is the only way to know your HIV status. Early detection greatly increases the effectiveness of treatment for those people who are infected.
HIV Health Education/Risk Reduction Programs
HIV prevention programs go beyond the provision of information to provide education and counseling that assist individuals in developing the skills, abilities, and self-esteem to carry out behavior change that will reduce their risk for HIV infection.
• Mpowerment Iowa City is a community-based, peer-run HIV prevention program for men who have sex with men; it includes small-group safer sex workshops, community events, and outreach efforts led by an innovative group of young men from within the community. The essence of Mpowerment Iowa City is community organizing, mobilization and empowerment. Call 319-688-5890 or visit www.Facebook.com/MpowerIC for more information.HIV/Hepatitis C Counseling, Testing, and Referral
Johnson County Public Health offers free and confidential rapid HIV testing to all individuals interested in being screened. Additionally, we provide rapid Hepatitis-C testing and Hepatitis A & B vaccination to those who qualify. Testing services are available at the JCPH office from 8:30am - 4:30pm Monday – Friday. No appointment is necessary for testing services but scheduling an appointment in advance can reduce wait times. For more information or to schedule an appointment please call our office at 319-356-6040.* At this time, JCPH does not test for other sexually transmitted diseases. Please see your doctor or go to the Free Medical Clinic for this service.Funding for HIV Prevention Programs at JCPH is provided, in part, by Iowa Department of Public Health.
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Tony Grima has developed a model which helps to understand a customers buying process. It should be viewed as an ongoing reciprocal process rather than sequential and will assist to focus your resources to not only maintain existing customers but also to attract new customers. The key point to remember is that customers will move between the quadrants at different rates. Some will sit in quadrant 1 (top left) for years while others will move to the buying stage very quickly. The goal of your business is to move all customers to the 4th quadrant or the buying stage, but to do so attention must be given to all parts of the cycle.
When first formulating a marketing strategy, part of the process is to segment the market where your business is best placed to meet the needs outlined in quadrant three. Essentially you need to identify and meet the needs and wants of your target customer. Any business effectively doing that has the edge over their competitors.
Quadrant 1 – I have heard about you: This phase is all about communicating your customer value proposition, building brand, credibility and reputation. This is achieved by advertising, word of mouth, referrals and recommendations, social media and your sales team.
Quadrant 2 – I am interested in what you offer: This is an important stage of the cycle and must be given plenty of attention. Your name is out there and customers are now interested in your products or service. Relationship building is key to securing new business but also retaining existing business. Customers may still say no to purchasing your product or service, but what they are really saying is "not now". It is well documented that it cost far more to secure new customers than to retain existing, so do not neglect regular customers who have already moved to the buying stage. These customers should always be made aware of new products and services you are offering with the goal to capture more revenue.
Quadrant 3 – I need your help with a problem: A critical phase of the cycle. The customer is aware of your business, they have an interest in your products or services and now have a need which requires a solution. Who ever best meets this need will win the business. It will not always be about price and could be driven by other factors of the customer value proposition promoted through quadrant two and three.
Quadrant 4 – I am ready to buy: Your business best meets the needs of the customer. Make the buying process easy. Ensure you provide exceptional customer service, support and follow-up to exceed expectations and build loyalty. The buying customer will now move back through quadrants one and two and any slip-up with the buying or post-buying process may damage your brand and reputation. Continue to strongly focus on building customer relationships and loyalty with the goal of your customer base cycling through quadrants three and four only.
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The Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act will take away the anti-trust exemption for health insurance companies, requiring them to compete fairly and adhere to the same anti-trust laws as other companies, Hinojosa said.
"This is a fair deal for all Americans especially for middle-class families who are facing higher premiums, a lower quality of coverage and limited choices," said Hinojosa. "In the meantime, insurance companies continued to make record profits. That is going to stop."
For 65 years, the health insurance industry has been legally exempt from anti-trust laws, and the federal government was banned from even investigating evidence of possible collusion. In the last 14 years alone, there have been 400 mergers among health insurers and now 94 percent of all insurance markets are "highly concentrated."


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Plugin Newsletter - September 2008
THE PLUGIN SITE UPDATES: New PhotoWiz Forums
NEW POLL: Do you use Lightroom as well as Photoshop for processing your photos?
THE DISCUSSION FORUMS: ContrastMaster Presets, Photoshop Plugins Problem, Grayed Out Plugins, Missing Plugin Files
GRAPHICS NEWS: PhotoPurify, Blow Up 2, Elements 7, CS4 Web Broadcast, Permanent Press
Dear Reader,
With Elements 7 and Photoshop CS4 almost ready to launch September seems to become an exiting month as far as product releases are concerned. We already released our latest ContrastMaster plugin in August and now updated it to Version 1.01. We also plan to release minor updates of our ColorWasher and FocalBlade plugins within the next months and started working on Version 2 of the PhotoFreebies. For more news see below.
CONTRASTMASTER 1.01 FOR WINDOWS: Bug Fixes and German
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THE PLUGIN SITE UPDATES: New PhotoWiz Forums
PhotoWiz forum was split up into a PhotoWiz General forums and five forums for each of the five Photowiz plugins. This makes it easier to find posts related to a certain PhotoWiz plugin. Each PhotoWiz product page now links to its specific forum. Thanks to Don for the suggestion!
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The most votes were given for 300, 1000 and 2000 photos. 80% of all voters take between 100 and 2000 photos. With 8% below 100 and 12% above 2000 photos. The median value lies at 750 photos, so that is the average number of photos that are taken during holidays.
For more poll results, please visit the Know-How section
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lutz wrote: "Contrast Master settings are certainly
image specific. Nevertheless, I was wondering if users could post some
presets here on the forum that produced nice effects for them ?"
Photoshop Plugins Problem
Grayed Out Plugins
Missing Plugin Files
The previously commercial BorderMania Pro and PhotoSwizzle plugins (for Windows) have been made freeware now. BorderMania Pro 5 creates a variety of basic borders and buttons and PhotoSwizzle 3 produces photocopy, button, drop shadow, kaleidoscope, prism, fractal and frame effects. The developer asks for a donation if you like the plugins.
The PhotoPurify plugin (for Win/Mac) allows you to match the colors of your printer to those of your screen. To do the calibration you need to print out a sheet with various colors and then select the colors of the printed sheet in the plugin. Once the calibration is done you just need to apply the plugin to an image and then print the image.
Mister Retro released the Permanent Press plugin (for
Win/Mac), which includes 60 vintage offset printing and ink effects. The
filters are divided into categories like Ink Color Modes, Ink Effects,
Plate Effects, Halftone Effects and Press Effects.
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Because of undesirable characteristics of some major arterials such as State Route (SR) 99 north and south of Seattle several cities are implementing redevelopment plans. These redevelopment proposals for SR 99 and other state routes include landscaped medians, many with trees placed close to the roadway in either the median or shoulder areas. However, WSDOT's clear zone width criterion may not always be met when trees are placed within curbed medians. To address this potential conflict, WSDOT chose to adopt an in-service evaluation process that would study collision, environmental, operational, and maintenance experiences in the field.
A report was prepared in 2007 that summarized an analysis of two of the 13 median treatment projects. That report also provided 'before' data and condition information on all median sections. This report summarizes the analysis of five additional sections. Because of changes in the methodology, previously reported accident rates were recalculated to be consistent with the 'after' data from this analysis. Data from the before and after periods were also analyzed at two control locations where no median treatments were installed.
Total, fatal, fixed object, pedestrian/bicycle, tree, curb/median and U-turn accident rates were analyzed. The percentages of intersection-related, driveway-related, and other accidents were analyzed. Overall, accidents decreased significantly for the treatment locations, but no other types of accidents showed significant changes at either the treatment or the control locations, except for the percentage of other types of accidents at the control locations, which increased significantly.
It appears that the installation of landscaped medians does not have a detrimental effect on safety and may result in an overall decrease in accidents, conclusions consistent with those of the first phase.


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Aiur is the original homeworld of the Protoss civilization in the StarCraft universe.
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Planet in the Antiga system. It was populated by the Terrans. Following a rise of a rebellion and the Sons of Korhal, the Zerg were drawn to the planet by a psi emitter, and later purified by the Protoss.
The infamous U.S. military base where secret experiments on aircraft and weapons are said to be performed. A common conspiracy theory is that Area 51 is a place where alien UFO's are stored.
A large space ship from Okami that also serves as the final area. It was built by the Moon Tribe to imprison demons.
Arrakis, also known as Dune, is a desert planet in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. Dune is the most valuable planet in the universe because it is the only planet where the spice melange is found.
The Attican Traverse is the frontier of Citadel space in Mass Effect.
A research vessel that serves as the primary setting of Metroid: Other M. It houses a collection of simulated planetary environments that Samus must explore.
Braxis is a planet in the StarCraft universe. Many missions in StarCraft took place on this planet.
A volcanic planet in the Koprulu Sector populated in the past by Terrans but has now been overtaken by the Zerg.
Citadel space is the seemingly vast region of the galaxy occupied by species that acknowledge the Citadel's power, though it truly only encompasses about 1% of explored space.
The main hub of Super Mario Galaxy. In addition to being an Observatory it can change into a spaceship, if you have 60 stars! It also appeared at the end of Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Political hub and capital of the galaxy, Coruscant has appeared in many Star Wars games.
Home world of the Transformers
Dark Athena is the name of the Merc ship featured in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. It is captained by Gale Revas.
The second Halo ring to appear in the Halo series, and is the main setting of Halo 2.
Dezoris/Dezo/Dezolis is the planet third from the sun in the Algol star system. While there are human colonies on this icy planet, there is also an eccentric native race which lives here.
A bizarre pocket universe where the laws of physics are mere suggestions, hostile abstract shapes patrol the land, and spikes abound like they're going out of style.
The homeworld of Humanity, and a popular vacation destination for galactic travellers in-the-know. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines Earth as "mostly harmless."
A beautiful and peaceful human colony that lies at the edge of citadel space
The planet where the last galactic battle was fought within the Star Wars universe. Home of the Ewoks.
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Gaia is the planet on which Final Fantasy VII takes place. The planet is portrayed as a living being, and the Lifestream its blood and spirit.
The star system where Gemini Rue takes place. War has torn its planets and created secrets scattered throughout the galaxy.
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The major setting of the Halo series, these ring worlds are an array of alien devices capable of killing all sentient life.
A structure or building for housing aircraft.
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