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We assessed changes in sexual behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM), before and for several years after HIV diagnosis, accounting for adoption of a variety of seroadaptive practices.
We collected self-reported sexual behavior data every 3 months from HIV-positive MSM at various stages of HIV infection. To establish population level trends in sexual behavior, we used negative binomial regression to model the relationship between time since diagnosis and several sexual behavior variables: numbers of (a) total partners, (b) potentially discordant partners (PDP; i.e., HIV-negative or unknown-status partners), (c) PDPs with whom unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) occurred, and (d) PDPs with whom unprotected insertive anal intercourse (uIAI) occurred.
A total of 237 HIV-positive MSM contributed 502 interviews. UAI with PDPs occurred with a mean of 4.2 partners in the 3 months before diagnosis. This declined to 0.9 partners/3 months at 12 months after diagnosis, and subsequently rose to 1.7 partners/3 months at 48 months, before falling again to 1.0 partners/3 months at 60 months. The number of PDPs with whom uIAI occurred dropped from 2.4 in the pre-diagnosis period to 0.3 partners/3 months (an 87.5% reduction) by 12 months after enrollment, and continued to decline over time.
Within months after being diagnosed with HIV, MSM adopted seroadaptive practices, especially seropositioning, where the HIV-positive partner was not in the insertive position during UAI, resulting in a sustained decline in the sexual activity associated with the highest risk of HIV transmission.
Citation: Vallabhaneni S, McConnell JJ, Loeb L, Hartogensis W, Hecht FM, Grant RM, et al. (2013) Changes in Seroadaptive Practices from before to after Diagnosis of Recent HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men. PLoS ONE 8(2): e55397. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055397
Editor: Javier R. Lama, Asociacion Civil Impacta Salud y Educacion, Peru
Received: July 18, 2012; Accepted: December 27, 2012; Published: February 6, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Vallabhaneni et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work was supported by funding from NIH NIAID 5 P01 A1071713. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
In the United States, men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. While they represent an estimated two percent of the population, MSM account for over half of all new HIV infections in the United States [1], [2]. "Prevention for Positives" programs aim to include HIV-positive MSM in prevention efforts and help them limit HIV transmission through behavioral and biomedical interventions. The design and implementation of these programs requires a deeper understanding of trends in sexual behavior among HIV-positive MSM over the course of HIV infection.
Previous studies on sexual behavior among MSM after HIV diagnosis found that risky sexual behavior declines soon after HIV diagnosis [3]–[14]. However, a majority of these studies were cross-sectional in nature and were not able to examine trends in these behaviors over time. Studies that do include some longitudinal follow-up suggest a rise in risky sexual behavior 1 year post-HIV diagnosis after the initial drop [5], [10], [14]. Eaton and Kalichman, in their review of sexual behavior across stages of HIV infection, point to the need for longer-term studies on this topic among HIV-infected individuals [15].
It is also important that studies describing trends in sexual behavior among HIV-infected MSM document the increasingly widespread adoption of seroadaptive sexual practices. Community activist groups have defined seroadaptation as modifying sexual behavior based on one's own HIV serostatus, the perceived HIV serostatus of a sexual partner, and/or differences in risk of transmission by different sexual acts [16]. Seroadaptive practices are based on the idea that new HIV infections do not occur when partners are seroconcordant (serosorting), and that certain sexual positions have higher per-act likelihood of HIV transmission than others (seropositioning or strategic positioning). Unprotected receptive anal intercourse has the highest per-contact risk of acquisition when the insertive partner is HIV-positive (at 0.82%), while unprotected insertive anal intercourse (uIAI), where the HIV-positive partner is in the receptive role, has a 13.7-fold lower per-contact acquisition risk (0.06%) [17]. In one study, the odds of HIV-positive individuals having uIAI was 13.6 times higher in HIV-positive seroconconcordant partnerships than in partnerships with HIV-negative individuals [18]. Seropositioning among HIV-positive MSM is more common and more successfully adhered to than consistent condom use [19]. Thus, partner serostatus and sexual position are important parameters to consider when characterizing sexual behavior of HIV-positive MSM, especially when one is interested in understanding the prevalence of behaviors that hold high risk for HIV transmission [20].
We undertook the present study to build on this existing literature in two ways: (1) to describe long-term trends in sexual behavior among MSM from before HIV infection to years after HIV diagnosis, encompassing all stages of HIV infection, and (2) to account for the widespread use of seroadaptive practices, especially seropositioning, among MSM when assessing sexual behavior, since different practices carry different risk for HIV transmission. To accomplish this, we modeled the relationship between time since diagnosis and measures of sexual behavior that take into account the number of partners, partner serostatus, and sexual position, among MSM at various stages of HIV infection.
Study Design
Data for this analysis were obtained from The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Options Project, a cohort study of individuals who enroll at the time of acute/early HIV infection. Participants are defined as having acute/early HIV if they met one of three criteria: (1) plasma HIV-1 RNA levels ≥3,000 copies/mm3 with a negative or indeterminate HIV-1 antibody test; (2) a positive HIV-1 antibody test, with a history of a negative HIV-1 antibody test within the previous 6 months or (3) a clinical history suggestive of recent HIV-1 acquisition, along with a reactive standard HIV-1 antibody test, but a nonreactive less-sensitive ("de-tuned") HIV-1 antibody test. Once participants are enrolled in the study, they continue to receive routine HIV care through their primary care provider, but also attend study visits at three-month intervals, when blood is collected for a number of tests, including plasma HIV viral load and CD4 count. Details of the Options study eligibility determination and enrollment process are described elsewhere [21]. The Options study protocol was approved by the UCSF Institutional Review Board (Project 10-00301), and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. Beginning in February 2009, behavioral data was obtained longitudinally at three-month intervals starting at the time of the screening visit using Audio-Computer-Assisted Self Interview (ACASI). During the interview, participants were asked about sexual activity in the past three months (or in the three months before diagnosis in the case of the screening visit), including total number of sex partners, perceived serostatus of partners, and types of sexual activity (i.e., insertive versus receptive anal intercourse, and protected versus unprotected anal intercourse). The ACASI typically took 45 minutes to complete. All new participants presenting to the Options study after February 1, 2009 completed an "initial" ACASI at the time of the screening visit, capturing sexual activity in the three months before diagnosis. Subsequently, participants completed "follow-up" interviews at three-month intervals where they reported on those same behavioral variables, with the three-month recall period ending on the day of the interview. Participants who had been enrolled in Options before 2009 completed "follow-up" ACASIs but did not have screening ACASI interviews, since they had enrolled into the study before ACASI was implemented.
It is important to point out here that although the data for this study were obtained from a longitudinal cohort study, the analysis presented below is a series of cross-sectional samples of HIV-positive men at various stages of HIV infection, with follow-up for up to two years for each individual. Each participant interview was indexed by time since diagnosis. A participant who enrolled in Options in February 2009 would contribute data points to the period three months before diagnosis (captured in the initial interview), and at 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 months post-diagnosis (captured through multiple follow-up interviews). A participant who enrolled in Options in February 2005 would contribute data points at 48 months post-diagnosis (since their first ACASI would have been in February 2009, 4 years after their diagnosis), 51 months, 54 months, and so on. The primary analyses focused on population-level trends in the sexual behavior variables described below.
Study Subjects
Subjects were included in our study if they were enrolled into the larger Options study (i.e., they were 18 years of age or older and met criteria for either acute or recent HIV infection as described above), were male, reported having sex with men in the past three months or self-identified as being gay, and completed at least one ACASI.
Participants self-reported their age, race or ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. The date of HIV diagnosis was verified in the medical record.
Sexual Behavior.
At each interview, participants reported the total number of all sexual partners by gender, and the number of HIV-positive, HIV-negative, and HIV unknown-status partners over the three-month recall period. Participants also reported the number of partners of each serostatus with whom they had unprotected insertive anal intercourse (uIAI) and unprotected receptive anal intercourse (uRAI).
Variables of Interest
Time since HIV diagnosis was the independent variable for this study. The dependent variables we measured focused on sexual behaviors that reflect the number of partners potentially at risk for new HIV infection, either accounting or not accounting for partner serostatus, sexual positioning, and plasma viral load. These include (a) the total number of male sexual partners in the last three months, (b) the number of PDPs (HIV-negative or unknown serostatus) in the last three months, (c) the number of PDPs with whom UAI occurred in the last three months, (d) the number of PDPs with whom uIAI occurred in the last three months, and (e) the number of PDPs with whom uIAI occurred in the last three months while the participant's pVL was >500 copies/ml.
Data Analysis
To analyze changes in the number of sexual partners over time, we used negative binomial regression, and modeled the effect of time since diagnosis using a restricted cubic spline. Negative binomial regression was chosen over the Poisson model due to the presence of overdispersion in the data. Zero-inflated negative-binomial models conferred no improvement in fit over regular negative–binomial models. Clustered sandwich estimators were used with the individual as the cluster to allow for within-person correlation in standard error calculations.
A fundamental assumption when modeling our data was that population sexual risk behavior is a smooth function of time. Due to non-linearity in the associations of the independent and dependent variables, a restricted cubic–spline approach was found to best capture the relationship between the time since diagnosis and sexual behavior variables. Lacking a priori knowledge of the location of the knots, we constructed five-knot cubic splines by Harrell's approach of placing knots at the following quantiles of the data: 0.05, 0.275, 0.5, 0.725, and 0.95 [22]. These five-knot spline models were found to be the best fit when compared with spline models with fewer knots as well as with pre-specified knots using Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC). Graphs were produced from fitted models of transmission risk over time. We present the predicted number of partners and 95% confidence intervals per three-month period for each sexual behavior variable, at specific times during the course of HIV infection.
To assess the impact of outliers on our results, we conducted a sensitivity analysis. We Windsorized the highest values of our partner count data to the 99th percentile, and then secondarily to the 90th percentile, and used these Windsorized variables in our regression models. Graphs and predicted partner counts were compared with corresponding results from our primary analyses.
The relationship between sexual behavior and transmission risk is further influenced by individual infectivity, which is greatly reduced with antiretroviral therapy [23]. To account for the impact of virologic suppression on HIV transmission risk, we assumed that partners of participants with suppressed viral load were not at risk for HIV acquisition. In this analysis, the number of partners at risk for HIV infection was set to 0 if the participant had a plasma viral load <500 copies/ml during the recall period for the interview in question.
Accounting for Differential Calendar Time at Enrollment into the Study
Study enrollment occurred between 1996 and 2010. During this 14-year period, there were significant advances in the availability of effective treatments and many public health measures directed at changing HIV risk behaviors were put in place. Because of the changing social environment, there may have been differences in baseline sexual behavior between men who enrolled in different calendar years, which could then impact subsequent sexual behavior in the years after diagnosis. For example, those enrolled in 2005 may have engaged in lower levels of risky sexual behaviors to begin with, and may have continued to report lower levels of risky sex in 2009 when they took the ACASI. At the five-year post HIV-infection time point, this would make any noted changes in risk behavior a reflection of the cohort the data are derived from rather than a true decline in sexual behavior in the later stages of HIV infection. To account for this, we compared baseline sexual behavior at the time of enrollment into the study for all participants. We made use of a separate interviewer-administered baseline behavioral questionnaire that was administered to all participants at the time of enrollment between 1996–2008, and the "initial" ACASI interview data for participants enrolled in 2009 or later, to compare mean number of sexual partners and mean number of discordant partners with whom uIAI occurred at baseline. Negative binomial regression models were used to test whether the number of partners reported in the 3-month period before diagnosis changed over calendar time.
All statistical computations were performed using STATA v10.1 (Stata Corporation, College Station, Texas) and SAS v9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina) software.
A total of 237 HIV-positive MSM were included in the study, and they contributed 504 interviews. Of these, 56 participants enrolled into the Options study after January 1, 2009, and completed a behavioral interview at the time of screening/enrollment into the study. These men contributed data in the pre-diagnosis period and then every three months from that point on, with a median of three interviews (range 1–5) covering a period of approximately 9 months. The remaining 181 men contributed only to "follow-up" interviews at various time points since diagnosis because they were enrolled into the cohort prior to 2009; the median number of interviews in this group was two (range 1–5), covering a period of approximately 6 months. Details of years of enrollment are provided in Table 1.
Mean age at diagnosis was 37.5 years (SD: 8.9 years). A majority of the participants were White (69.9%), and a majority of the "other" race participants were of mixed Black and Hispanic origin (See Table 1). At first ACASI, nearly one-fifth (18.6%) of the participants had been diagnosed with HIV for less than six months, and one-third (35.0%) had been diagnosed for longer than five years. The median time between estimated date of HIV infection and positive diagnosis was two months (range: 0.5–7 months).
Trends in Sexual Behavior from before to after Seroconversion
The mean total number of male partners per participant (Figure 1, Table 2) in the three-month period before HIV diagnosis was 12.8 partners (95% Confidence Interval (95%CI): 8.7–18.8). By twelve months after diagnosis, there was a marked decline in the number of partners to 5.5/three months (95%CI: 3.9–7.7), but by 48 months, the total number of partners rose again to 10.0/three months 95%CI: 6.1–16.3). Partner count declined again to a new low of 4.9/three months (95% CI: 3.3–7.4) by 96 months following diagnosis. The mean number of PDPs per three-month period declined from 7.9 (95% CI: 5.7–11.0) in the three months before diagnosis to a low of 2.0/three months (95% CI: 1.3–3.1) at 12 months after diagnosis. We again noted a rise in total number of PDPs to 6.5/three months (95% CI: 3.4–12.7) at the 48-month time point after diagnosis. Similar to the drop in the total number of partners, the total number of PDPs declined steadily after 48 months since diagnosis.
An immediate drop in the total number of male partners in the first year of infection was followed by increases in number of partners over the following 3–4 years. The trend was similar for potentially serodiscordand partners (PDPs) although they comprised only 1/3 to 1/2 of total partnerships. However, unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) with PDPs occurred in far fewer partnerships throughout the follow-up period. Partnerships in which the HIV-positive participant was the insertive partner during unprotected anal intercourse (uIAI) accounted for fewer than 10% of all partnerships and in very few of those partnerships did the participant have sufficient plasma viral load (VL >500 copies/ml) to present a significant transmission risk.
The mean number of PDPs with whom unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) occurred also followed a similar pattern. There was an initial drop from 4.2/three months (95% CI: 2.7–6.6) in the three months before diagnosis to a low of 0.9/three months (95% CI: 0.5–1.7) at 12 months, followed by a rise to 1.7/three months (95% CI: 0.9–3.1) at 48 months, before falling again to 1.0 partners/three months (95% CI: 0.5–1.9) by 60 months.
In contrast to our finding that the above three measures of sexual behavior–namely, total number of partners, PDPs, and PDPs with whom UAI occurred–rebounded after an initial decline in the first year after diagnosis, we found that the mean number of PDPs with whom unprotected insertive anal sex (uIAI) occurred declined dramatically, and there was no notable rise over the duration of HIV infection. The number of such partnerships was 2.4 partners/three months (95% CI: 1.3–4.5) in the three months before diagnosis, and this declined sharply to 0.3/three months (95% CI: 0.1–0.8) at 12 months–representing an 87.5% risk reduction in the number of partners at very high risk of HIV acquisition. The number of such partnerships was 0.2/three months (95% CI: 0.1–0.8) at 48 months and 0.1/three months (95% CI: 0.1–0.3) at 60 months.
The mean number of partners at highest risk for HIV acquisition, namely PDPs with whom participants reported uIAI while having a viral load >500 copies/ml, went from 2.4 (95% CI: 1.3–4.3) in the three months before diagnosis to 0.1/three months (95% CI: 0.02–0.2) by 12 months post-diagnosis, and stayed low throughout the duration of HIV infection. This represents a 96% reduction in HIV transmission risk at 12 months when the additive effects of behavioral change and viral suppression were taken into account (assuming that participants with a suppressed viral load do not transmit HIV to negative partners). A sensitivity analysis using Windsorized variables to minimize the impact of outliers yielded comparable results (data not shown).
Comparison of Baseline Risk Behavior to Assess for Cohort Effect
Pre-diagnosis baseline sexual behavior characteristics, as measured by the mean total number of sexual partners, the mean number of HIV-negative partners, and the mean number of uIAI partners of any serostatus, in the three months before diagnosis, did not differ significantly by year of enrollment into the cohort (reflecting year of infection and diagnosis). The p-values for test-of-trend of mean total number of partners, HIV- negative partners, and mean number of uIAI partners were 0.93, 0.90, and 0.22, respectively.
In this study, we found that MSM in San Francisco with recent HIV infection rapidly changed their sexual behavior after diagnosis in ways that would reduce the likelihood of sexual transmission of HIV to uninfected individuals, and that this effect was sustained over time. Consistent with previous reports, we found that the total number of sexual partners and UAI with potentially discordant partners declined during the first 12 months and then rose at 12–24 months after diagnosis [3]–[14]. However, when the full range of seroadaptative practices, including seropositioning, was taken into account, we found that the behavior that resulted in the highest risk of transmission–uIAI with potentially discordant partners–decreased dramatically in the first year, and continued to stay low over the observation period. These results suggest that HIV-positive MSM may be more likely to adopt seropostioning as a risk reduction strategy rather than serosorting with other positive partners, perhaps because seropositioning allows them to expand their choice of partners while still potentially reducing HIV transmission risk. These findings are consistent with another study among MSM in San Francisco, which found that HIV-positive MSM adopted seropositioning as a risk reduction strategy, in contrast with HIV-negative men, who preferentially adopted a serosorting strategy to reduce their risk of infection [19]. These data suggest a reason for renewed optimism about sustained behavioral change after HIV diagnosis. Even in communities where HIV is endemic and condoms are not used consistently, individuals with HIV infection may be able to reduce transmission risk by adopting and maintaining these seroadaptive practices. These findings highlight the importance of strategies that seek to expand HIV testing and diagnosis, even while working to broaden antiretroviral treatment coverage.
Our study also emphasizes the potential value of very early HIV diagnosis–namely, during acute HIV infection–in reducing HIV transmission. The participants in our cohort study were acutely infected and enrolled a median of 2 months after the estimated date of their infection. As shown by Steward and colleagues [24], we found that in the weeks after diagnosis, acutely HIV-infected MSM reduce HIV transmission risk to their partners by adopting seroadaptive practices. Furthermore, this shift in behavior was sustained for many years among our study participants. Since transmission potential is highest during acute infection [25], [26], rapid behavioral change during acute HIV infection has the greatest potential to reduce HIV transmission compared with behavioral change at other stages of infection.
There are many factors that may influence changes in sexual behavior after HIV infection and diagnosis, including age, health status, and access to antiretroviral therapy. Perhaps the most important of these factors may be advancing age. Older age has been associated with a decline in partnership acquisition among MSM (though the decline is less pronounced than among heterosexual men and women) [27]. Although in this descriptive study we were unable to discriminate between the potential reasons for changes in risky sexual behavior, it is important to recognize that participant's age may have contributed to the decline.
We considered participants with a pVL>500 having uIAI with HIV-negative/unknown-status partners as carrying the highest transmission risk. However, we recognize that transmission of HIV can occur even when the HIV-negative partner is in the insertive position (0.06% per contact risk) [17] and that having an undetectable viral load does not mean HIV transmission will not occur. When used consistently and properly, condoms should always be advocated as one highly effective way to prevent HIV infection and the transmission of some STIs during anal intercourse. In cases where condoms are unacceptable to an individual (or inconsistently used for any reason), transmission may be reduced by advocating for seroadaptive tactics and suppressive antiretroviral treatment among HIV-positive men, with the caveat that successful prevention would be based on disclosure and accurate assessment of partners' serostatus [28], [29].
This study has several limitations. First, each participant was followed for no more than two years, and our analysis inferred that persons diagnosed with recent HIV infection over more than a decade followed a similar natural history. To address this issue of differences in calendar time at enrollment, we tested for cohort effect to see if those enrolling into the study in different years had different baseline behavior; reassuringly, we found no evidence of a difference. Second, it is also possible that some of the changes in behavior in the cohort might be attributable to differential behavior among those followed and those lost to follow-up and that participants in a study of recently infected individuals may not be representative of the general HIV-infected population. Therefore, we might have overestimated the magnitude of reduction in risky behaviors that occurred over time, relative to baseline. Third, because of a lack of data at certain time points post-HIV infection we had some wide and overlapping confidence intervals, reducing the precision of our estimates of risky sexual behavior, especially many years after HIV infection. Fourth, we measured numbers of partners rather than numbers of sex acts, and so were not able to account for numbers of episodes or acts of uAI with PDPs, and we did not account for whether partners were steady/regular versus casual partners. Finally, the study was not designed to assess the factors motivating seroadaptive behavior (i.e., intentionality, partnership status). Understanding why HIV-infected men do or do not adopt these behaviors–and how these behaviors might be encouraged together with other risk reduction strategies–are important areas for future research. Despite such limitations, results of this observational study provide compelling evidence for behavioral change among the particular cohort of men enrolled in the study (i.e., men diagnosed with acute or recent HIV infection and enrolled in an observational study with frequent and systematic reporting of risk).
Seroadaptive practices, which originated from the community of persons at risk for HIV transmission and not from the scientific or public health communities, reflect tactics that MSM developed as they made choices around sexual partnerships and types of sexual activity. There are serious limitations to the efficacy of these strategies at preventing HIV infection when practiced by HIV-negative men. However, among HIV-positive men, the adoption of seroadaptive practices may be effective at reducing HIV transmission [18], [30]. We observed that HIV-positive MSM in our cohort employed a variety of seroadaptive practices, including seropositioning, to reduce risk of HIV transmission to potentially serodiscordant partners. A further reduction in the number of partners at risk for HIV acquisition was attributable to antiretroviral treatment that effectively suppressed HIV plasma viral load. These findings suggest that improving early diagnosis of HIV infection can empower MSM to further decrease their risk of transmitting HIV, a behavioral change that is achievable. At the same time, our study highlighted the existence of a relatively small pool of men who continue to engage in high-risk behavior after HIV diagnosis. The relevant factors associated with this behavior, and modes to intervene to decrease its prevalence, need to be better characterized. It is likely that reducing HIV transmission rates will require sustained efforts to encourage HIV-positive MSM to engage in regular healthcare monitoring. This will create opportunities for both suppressive antiretroviral therapy and ongoing risk reduction counseling, particularly for those who engage in behavior with high transmission risk. This counseling could include relaying the findings of this paper, as well as estimates of how effective seroadaptation may be for reducing HIV transmission, which might serve to reinforce such behavior among adopters while providing community-tested alternatives to men who have not yet adopted seroadaptive practices. Finally, we note that future studies (including cohort studies, epidemiologic studies and modeling exercises) that assess transmission risk among HIV-positive MSM should account for partner HIV serostatus, sexual position, and HIV viral load in the design of both their questionnaires and models.
We gratefully acknowledge the men who have participated in the Options cohort, without whom this and other studies of HIV transmission would not be possible. We also acknowledge Willi McFarland, Tor Neilands, and Peter Bacchetti for their assistance with methods and critical review of the paper.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SV JJM LL WH FH RG CP. Performed the experiments: SV JJM WH CP. Analyzed the data: SV JJM LL WH FH RG CP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV JJM LL WH FH RG CP. Wrote the paper: SV JJM LL WH FH RG CP.
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Tony, Tony, Tony. Why did you do it? When there was so much more work to be done? Coronation Street killer Tony Gordon always knew he was heading for the underworld, even before he took over a factory of the same name. But now he's gone and spoiled it. Tonight Tony walks into a police station and confesses to the murder of Liam Connor, asking for one offence of pushing Roy Cropper into the canal to be taken into account.
Bad news for non-swimmer Roy (David Neilson) who, for the first time since life dawned over the Red Rec, was not attached to the lifeline of his shopping bag. Corrie producer Kim Crowther told David she'd never felt more guilty in her life about having him plunged into the murky water. To which he replied: "Not guilty enough."
In due course, Tony (Gray O'Brien) will face trial by jury – and Blanche – his labours in soapland left sadly unfinished. Surely he could have stayed a free man long enough to bump off Kevin and Molly for crimes against believable soap affairs? Taking Molly's Auntie Pam and her sandwich round out at the same time.
Devil boy David Platt will be sitting at Tony's right hand side in Hades. So why not speed up the process and spare us decades of soap viewing purgatory which can only end badly? And Tony – what about kebab shop drunk Teresa? Currently shacked up with Lloyd, the taxi firm boss with a romantic life badly in need of a TomTom. Did she really deserve to live?
We can all play this game. Weatherfield to Walford is but a few hours' drive. Slaughter on Albert Square? Take your pick, starting with the next person to walk into The Queen Vic. Or across the Pennines to Emmerdale, where they have troubles of their own. Gold-digger Charity might have a pretty face but she's first on my list.
Hopefully Blanche, and the judge, will be merciful and set a low tariff for Tony's life sentence, allowing him to walk free after 15 years inside. Which in soap time will be 2012. So perhaps all is not lost. In a previous TV incarnation, Gray O'Brien played Peak Practice's Dr Tom Deneley and is, therefore, televisually medically qualified for daytime resettlement at the Mill Health Centre in Letherbridge. BBC1's Doctors. From which there is no escape.


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My outer skin looks so transparant,
You think you see through me like glass,
People think they know me so, so well.
Well, their wrong. How? they ask.
Well, I tell them, It just means
That I'm a supreme actor, which I am after all.
I fooled you all, you only saw
The painting drawn on my outer wall.
The truth is, it's only an illusion.
Shimmering, visible, but not really there.
The real me is locked up in a vault
And you know that I'm not going to share
That part of me with anyone else,
Because you just won't get it.


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One year later, Jan. 06, 2010 had need to contact them for pre-approval before taking my vehicle in for "check engine light". This in accordance with their contract policy. Called toll free numbers available and left messages several times over next week, as well as couple of e-mails. No response !!!
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Now, as of Jan. 16, Nobody from this "cowardly fraud of a company" has yet to call me back. Their phones are now "out of service", and their web site is still up. Quite possibly still ripping us off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Highs in the low-to-mid 20s might usually be something of note, but we're pros at this. Add in lighter winds through the day, plus plentiful sunshine mixed with bright snow… It's not so bad, right? If you're yearning for some time to thaw out, we're on our way, but we have a frigid night followed by a day to try to rise near that ice-inducing mark of 32 first.
Through Tonight: This is a prime night for radiational cooling, especially in sheltered valleys that still have solid snow cover. With mostly clear skies and diminishing wind, temperatures dip all the way to near zero in the coldest of spots to perhaps low teens or so downtown. Everyone's cold, but a big range type of night, with some fun microclimate differences. West winds around 5-10 early diminish toward quite light overnight.
Tomorrow (Thursday): We begin to climb out of the deep freeze by making a run at freezing. With that noticeably increasing sun angle, a mostly clear day featuring highs rising to near 30 or into the low 30s should feel pretty decent. Especially with winds only around 5-8 mph from the south.
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Brrrrr: Our January to remember is going to be hitting a lot of pocketbooks, if it hasn't started doing so already. Today's 10th low in or below the single digits at Dulles puts January 2014 into the top-5 of all months there for frigid mornings. Tonight should push it to number four. With all this cold, energy usage has been through the roof. Washington Gas sent out a release today stating that the initial cold outbreak set a usage record. Here's the meat (emphasis added):
From 1 a.m. on January 7 to 12:59 a.m. on January 8, Washington Gas had a record daily sendout of 1.652 million dekatherms (dths) of natural gas, representing the total amount used by the company's 1.1 million natural gas customers in the entire metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. That level is 8,000 dths higher than the previous record date of January 16, 2009, which was during President Barack Obama's first inauguration weekend in 2009. This January has been so cold that a total of seven days this month have made the list of Washington Gas' highest 25 ever natural gas usage days.
Pollen update: Hello spring? The U.S. Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab reports that elm pollen has arrived. It's a little later than normal actually, often showing up around the second to third week of January. They report that maples are also showing some signs of life, and may respond to warmer days in the future.


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Fuel-tanker drivers have voted in favour of industrial action, raising the possibility of the first national strike for more than a decade.
About 2,000 members of the Unite union at seven companies were balloted over terms and conditions and safety standards, with the resulting vote in favour of a strike said to be overwhelming.
Unite drivers supply fuel to 90 per cent of the UK's forecourts and the union said a strike could close up to 7,900 petrol stations. The Government has announced that soldiers are being lined up to stand in for the tanker drivers if strikes go ahead.
Members of Unite working for five distribution firms delivering fuel for household names such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, BP, Shell and Esso backed the call for strike action by an average of 69 per cent. Turnouts across the five companies averaged 77.7 per cent. Diana Holland, Unite's assistant general secretary, said: "These votes send a clear message throughout the industry and should prompt all the major companies to get around the table to establish minimum standards. This is not about pay – this is about ensuring that high safety and training standards are maintained, so that our communities are safe." The Government said it had "robust resilience and contingency plans" to deal with a strike and had already started to put these in place to minimise any disruption to the public.
Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, said: "The Unite ballot result is disappointing. The Government is strongly of the view that strike action is wrong and unnecessary.
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If "The upper eyelid crease is formed by attachments of the levator aponeurosis to the skin" Is it possible that these attachments could be disturbed (and cause the upper eyelid crease to droop) by a upper bleph and / or ptosis repair surgery? I am 1 yr. post op from bilateral upper bleph, and left eye only mueller's muscle resection for mild congenital ptosis. about 4mm of skin was removed, no muscle or fat. Following surgery my naturally high / deep creases are drooping. Can this be fixed?
Can the Attachments That Form the Upper Eyelid Crease Loosen from Surgery?
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Can the Attachments That Form the Upper Eyelid Crease Loosen from Surgery?
Yes, the attachments can be cut and weakened with upper eyelid surgery (Blepharoplasty), especially when a large portion of the eyelid muscle is removed which increases the depth at which the tissues are dissected...and the attachments weakened.
Web reference: http://www.drfpalmer.com/Blepharoplasty-EyelidSurgery.html
Upper eyelid crease
There could be various factors in play here. The crease can be changed by prior surgery including blepharoplasty. The crease is affected by eyelid skin, orbicularis muscle, fat, and levator muscle. See an oculoplastic surgeon for evaluation.
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Cosmetic Surgery is an Art and a Science
The levator muscle attatchment to the skin creates a natural crease in the eyelid. Most patients do not have symmetrical lids and that is what makes us unique. Without photos, it is hard to completely answer your dilemma. Revising the muscle attatchment may help. Thomas Narsete, M.D.
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Web reference: http://www.bitarinstitute.com/blepharoplasty-eyelid-surgery-washington-dc
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|Reviews for Happy Birthday
| Tribble Master chapter 5 . 2/22/2012
Well, Bobby is house proud neat freak. Tis canon. I'm glad dean's a live. kind of. i'm not sure how i feel about this. At least Sam got to see Jess and Mary. And I think that if no one had resurrected Sam the first time the entire apocalypse could have been avoided.
There are a couple of spots in this chapter where the tenses are odd/off.
Mostly I just want to shank the shifter. I have no sympathy for him. He's a dick and need to be put down.
The story started off pretty well. I'm sorry for being a debbie downer. I've seen you write stronger pieces. Anyway, write on!
| Tribble Master chapter 4 . 2/22/2012
y'know, hurting people, killing them - that was good
for the most part i did not enjoy this chapter. i dunno. it's just to out of character for me. and dean is dead dead. thats unfortunate.
what really bugs me is Bobby just saying "oh, well, alright then. guess that's normal Winchester business."
I'm sorry :/
| Tribble Master chapter 3 . 2/22/2012
Its kind of disturbing how accepting sam is of this. i dont feel comfortable with it. hrm. i hope bobby shanks dean and hits sam hard enough to knock sense into his head.
also? you glossed over my favorite s1 episode... :/
still, very intriguing ...
| Tribble Master chapter 2 . 2/22/2012
You know why I love season one Sam? The hair.
I am confuzzled. Because if dean's the shifter then fake!dean shot real!dean wich means that real!dean said those mean things to Sam. Wich makes me sad.
...write on!
| Tribble Master chapter 1 . 2/22/2012
see, i know there's gonna be shifter so now i'm trying to figure out wich one is gonna be abducted...argh...
there were so many messed up things with that episode. le sigh.
off to a good start! i shall prance and frollic through the chapters.
| Zariess chapter 5 . 10/11/2011
Um..wow, when i finished reading i was dumbfounded. lol don't know what i feel. But this was a very good story, now i'm off to read your other stories.
| OpheliacAngel chapter 5 . 9/23/2011
Wow, the ending was shocking and sad but I loved it. It was kinda not as sad the more I thought about it.
I'm can't believe it's over but I really enjoyed it while it lasted :)
| OpheliacAngel chapter 4 . 9/12/2011
This is getting really really good. I'm happy to see you expanded it from just one chapter. Keep up the great work :D
| jwinchesterkent chapter 3 . 8/31/2011
I dont get it- where's the real Dean in all this? Did the shapeshifter kill him? Oh no! Not that I dont mind the shapeshifter- he seems pretty nice. But why is he being so nice all of a sudden when he wanted to kill those girls earlier? Confused...
| SupernaturallyEgocentric chapter 2 . 8/25/2011
Looking forward to the next chapter.
| SupernaturallyEgocentric chapter 1 . 8/22/2011
Uh oh, this can't be good.


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- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves
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- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 jalapeño, chopped
- One 10-ounce package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 4 ounces cream cheese ( 1/2 cup)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- Salt
- 3/4 pound cooked shrimp, chopped
How to make this recipe
In a food processor, pulse the cilantro, scallions, garlic and jalapeño until finely chopped. Add the spinach, mayonnaise, cream cheese, lime juice and salt to taste and process until smooth. Add the shrimp and pulse until finely chopped. Transfer the dip to a bowl and refrigerate until chilled before serving.
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Pratt Industries, a Conyers, Ga.-based paper recycling and packaging company, held a ceremonial groundbreaking of a solid waste transfer station at its corporate headquarters on April 25.
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Cesc Fabregas has claimed that Barcelona were reluctant to sell him, with president Josep Maria Bartomeu initially trying to block his £30 move to Chelsea.
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"At the time, I spoke with [sporting director] Andoni Zubizarreta and the president [Josep Maria Bartomeu] and I told them I wanted to leave.
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Labor has queried why the attorney general, George Brandis, is intervening in sensitive foreign policy issues such as the Middle East peace talks, with the former foreign minister Bob Carr accusing the Coalition of siding with the "religious, ethno-nationalist right of Israeli politics".
In a statement given to a Senate estimates hearing this week, Brandis ditched the terminology "occupied east Jerusalem", which has been deployed descriptively and definitionally by both the Coalition and Labor over several successive governments.
"The description of east Jerusalem as 'occupied east Jerusalem' is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful," Brandis told the Senate estimates hearing. "It should not and will not be the practice of the Australian government to describe areas of negotiation in such judgmental language."
Labor's deputy leader and foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, expressed surprise that a policy shift of such sensitivity had been telegraphed by someone other than the prime minister, Tony Abbott, or the foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop.
Plibersek's spokesman said on Friday: "Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?"
The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to "another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements."
Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
Shorten remarked that "some settlement activity in the West Bank is illegal under Israeli law" when Labor's policy was that the settlements are not in line with international law. The departure from policy was put down to a mistake by Shorten.
On Friday, Plibersek's spokesman reiterated Labor's policy on a two-state solution and on settlements. "We are committed to supporting an enduring and just two-state solution. Clear Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advice to Labor in government was that the settlements are not in line with international law."
Guardian Australia has sought clarification from Julie Bishop's office as to whether Brandis's statement to estimates this week was reflective of government policy. At the time of publication, no clarification was forthcoming.
Bob Carr, who in his recent memoir upbraided Julia Gillard for being captured by the "pro-Israel lobby", weighed-in on the Brandis shift on Friday.
"If Australia is saying that you can't talk about an 'occupied east Jerusalem', all of that logic means that Australia is now saying you can't talk about an occupied West Bank," Carr told the ABC.
He suggested Australia's foreign policy was now more pro-Israel than majority opinion in Israel, and contended the latest Australian shift would not go down well in Washington.
"The State Department would be appalled," Carr said. "We have sided with the religious, ethno-nationalist right of Israeli politics. That means we are encouraging the hardliners – the most hardline of the hardline in Israel – to think in terms of a greater Israel, an annexation of what has been seen by the world up until now as territory occupied as a consequence of the 1967 war," Carr said.
Peter Rogers, who was the Australian ambassador to Israel between 1994 and 1997, told the ABC on Friday that Australia's policy on Israel now was, in essence, illogical.
"I really see absolutely no logic to it. I see no benefit for a government that still proclaims that it has an interest in a two-state solution to be supporting activities on the ground that defy the prospect of that actually happening," Rogers said.
The government has faced a fierce domestic political backlash from Jewish groups, and well as other faith and ethnic communities, about its proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, reforms that are being spearheaded by the attorney-general.
Peter Wertheim, the executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who has been active in a broadly-based community campaign against the RDA changes, said on Friday that he saw no connection between Brandis's statement this week on east Jerusalem and the discrimination fracas. "I don't see any connection whatsoever," Wertheim said.


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