High School Roundup: Seeds Announced For District 4 Girls Tennis Tournament
GIRLS TENNIS
WILLIAMSPORT – Lewisburg’s Eleanor Gerhard is a of the tip seeds streamer in to Saturday’s District 4 singles tournament, that will be hold at Williamsport High School.
Gerhard will face the leader of the rough tie in between Montgomery’s Ashlea Lovell and Central Columbia’s Nikki Oman.
In other first-round action, Danville’s Anna Schafer faces Galeton’s Andi Leach; Milton’s Megan Rudloff plays Williamson’s Bekka Paul; associate Green Dragon Laura Sprunt faces Grace Summerson of South Williamsport; and Shikellamy’s Tiara Bartol plays the rough G leader – possibly Danville’s Abby Schafer or Wellsboro’s Ashley Evans.
Action starts 9 a.m. The semifinals and last are Monday at 2 p.m. at Bloomsburg University.
Montoursville 5, Shikellamy 0
MONTOURSVILLE – The Warriors won all but two particular matches in true sets to brush the Braves in the HAC-I doubleheader. Montoursville improves to 10-3 whilst Shikellamy falls to 0-13.
Danville 3, Selinsgrove 2
DANVILLE – Leading off with wins from Brittany Grubb at No. 1 singles and Anna Schafer at No. 2, the Ironmen took the HAC-I victory. Danville improves to 8-3 overall.
FIELD HOCKEY
Selinsgrove 3, Shikellamy 0
SUNBURY – First-half goals by Coli Deckard, Geneka Mahan and Becca Bausinger propelled the Seals to the win over their cross-river rivals in the Heartland Athletic Conference Division we matchup.
Kelsey Ulrich got the shutout for Selinsgrove (10-1-1, 7-0 HAC-I) after she done 6 saves.
Mifflinburg 1, Lewisburg 1 (OT)
LEWISBURG – A long week has advance to an finish is to Wildcats, but the HAC-I matchup finished in a tie when Amy Orren scored early in the second half to tangle the measure is to visitors.
Drew Kline scored off an support from Claire Lesher late in the initial half to lead Lewisburg (5-4-2, 2-2-1 HAC-I).
Mifflinburg moves to 6-4-2, 4-2-2 HAC-I.
Greenwood 1, East Juniata 0
MILLERSTOWN – Salene Shaffer’s objective off a Rachael Loy support with 7:49 left in the competition gave the comparison deliver the 101st indicate of her vocation and the Wildcats the Tri-Valley League victory. Greenwood improves to 10-1-2, 6-0-1 in joining play.
GIRLS SOCCER
Mifflinburg 1, Hughesville 0
MIFFLINBURG – Rachel Bingaman’s unassisted objective with 13 mins left in the initial half was all that the Wildcats indispensable to take the HAC-I win.
Reba Baker done 10 saves to obtain the shutout for Mifflinburg (3-6 on the whole and HAC-I).
Midd-West 2, Williamsport 0
WILLIAMSPORT – Janelle Arbogast scored both of the Mustangs’ goals in the initial half to lead them to the HAC-I victory. Midd-West improves to 5-5, 2-4 in the conference.
Milton 2, Shikellamy 0
SUNBURY – The Black Panthers scored twice, and Mack Miller had a palm in both goals is to HAC-I feat over the Braves on their comparison night.
Miller scored 2:08 in to the second half off an support by Emily Mollica. A Miller pass then resulted in a objective by Jessica Hendershot a small more than 13 mins later.
Shikellamy falls to 1-8-1, 1-6-1 HAC-I.
Montoursville 3, Lewisburg 1
MONTOURSVILLE – Lana Spitler scored twice in the second half, with her second objective forthcoming with only 9 seconds left on the timepiece to bind the Warriors’ HAC-I victory.
Kaitlyn Donnelly scored unassisted in the initial half to at the moment tie the diversion for Lewisburg (4-7, 3-6 HAC-I).
Mount Carmel 2, Central Columbia 1
MOUNT CARMEL – Ranotta Ahrensfield and Taylor Getty both scored in the initial half as the Red Tornadoes after that had to hold off the Blue Jays is to HAC-II win. Mount Carmel improves to 5-4 on the whole and in the conference.
Line Mountain 3, Williams Valley 0
MANDATA – Tia Kissinger’s objective and support helped give the Eagles the Schuylkill League win. Deidre Long and Kasey Long updated goals for Line Mountain (8-5 overall).
Northumberland Chr. 5, Nativity 4 (OT)
NORTHUMBERLAND – Brooke Conklin’s objective off a Hannah Renno support with 5:02 left in overtime carried the Warriors to the nonleague victory.
Conklin finished with a shawl pretence and two assists for Northumberland Christian (14-0-1).
BOYS SOCCER
Lewisburg 5, Shikellamy 0
LEWISBURG – The Green Dragons scored all 5 of their goals in the initial half to hurl to the HAC-I win.
Nick Janesch scored twice, whilst Bronson Ferster had a objective and an support for Lewisburg (8-3-1, 5-2-1 HAC-I), that put a complete of 40 players in to the diversion – inclusive the jayvees, who played the entire second half.
East Juniata 4, Selinsgrove 0
COCOLAMUS – Tyler Inch and Sal Amato scored in the initial half, and Cody Scholl and Landon Sheaffer tallied goals in the second half to lead the Tigers to the nonleague victory.
East Juniata improves to 8-0-1, whilst Selinsgrove falls to 9-2.
Midd-West 2, Shamokin 2 (OT)
COAL TOWNSHIP – Chris Trawitz scored with 2:49 left in the diversion to tangle the measure at 2, and that’s where the HAC-I matchup ended.
Jake Keister moreover scored for Midd-West (4-4-2 overall).
Shamokin is 1-8-1.
Mifflinburg 0, Williamsport 0 (OT)
WILLIAMSPORT – Nick Bachorski done 8 saves is to Wildcats as the HAC-I competition finished in a draw. Mifflinburg moves to 4-5-3, 2-4-3 in the division.
Benton 3, Meadowbrook Chr. 2
MILTON – Tarik Laroche and Caleb Clendaniel both scored goals is to Lions, but it wasn’t sufficient to lead them to the nonleague victory. Meadowbrook falls to 8-2-1.
Sunbury Christian 8, Walnut Street Christian 0
NORTHUMBERLAND – Taylor Edwards and Adam Clemens scored two goals every in the initial half is to Eagles in the nonleague victory. Sunbury Christian improves to 4-7.
Women’s Soccer Wins One, Loses Another
The women’s varsity soccer group had its work cut out for it this weekend. Saturday would underline a difficult Middlebury team, whilst Sunday was approaching to be a fighting against a somewhat reduction strong Colby attack. These assumptions valid correct, as Wesleyan mislaid 2-1 against a Middlebury group that sits at second in the NESCAC at 6-1-1, and handily degraded a somewhat weaker Colby side by a measure of 4-2. Colby is now sitting only on top of the discussion groundwork with an out -of-conference record of 4-4 and an in-conference line of1-4.
While Middlebury was approaching to simply top the Cardinals, since its highly evolved place in the NESCAC echelon, the Cardinals valid a sufficient tougher challenger than the home group had bargained for. Wesleyan got on the house initial as quad-captain and heading scorer Laura Kurash ’13 hexed a pass from star sophomore and second-leading scorer Kerry Doyle and put it in to the objective for her team-leading fifth of the season. Wes took the lead in to halftime and looked to go on its plain NESCAC play. Unfortunately, notwithstanding the stellar fool around of reliable frosh screw Jessica Tollman, who composed a plain 7 saves on the day, Middlebury equalized in the 54th notation off the feet of star sophomore Scarlett Kirk. The teams remained scored equally in to the second overtime period, when Kirk, the NESCAC heading scorer and two time NESCAC player of the week endowment recipient, found the back of the net again. Kirks two-fer capped a large advance from at the back win for Midd, whose offense has been the story of the period in the NESCAC .
The float home from Middlebury couldn’t have been fun, but the Cardinals came out gritty to recover a few in-conference points against Colby. In the initial 10 minutes, the diversion already looked mislaid is to home team. Colby scored twice in the initial ten, 3′ and 7′ objective times respectively, and seemed acted to wallop Wes out of its stream chain in a playoff seat. Wes came surging back, lighting up the scoreboard similar to no other time this year, and ended the diversion with the many goals the group has scored all year. Hannah Stone ’15 scored her initial vocation objective in the 10th notation to bring the hole to only one objective and infer to the Mules that the diversion was far from over. Nine mins later, Kerry Doyle ’14 gathering home the fourth objective of the diversion and the second for Wes, that had evened the lean scarcely as rapidly as it had depressed divided fromthem.
The measure would grip compartment halftime, and unexpectedly a diversion it looked similar to Wes would remove was up for grabs. The teams played 27 mins of scoreless round in the second half before Kurash once again valid her character by scoring off of a dilemma flog is to contingent diversion winner, and her 6th objective of the season. Kurash updated other for great measure in the 83rd minute, when she stole the round from a Colby defender, ran at goal, stepped around the keeper, and scored her seventh of the year in to an open net. She now sits high as the third heading scorer in the NESCAC this year with 7 goals and two assists, for 16 points. Doyle, who updated an support on the dilemma Kurash knocked home, joins her on the NESCAC personality house with 3 goals and 4 assists, great for 10 points and the seventh heading scorer mark in the NESCAC .
Both games, even though tough, were winnable for Wesleyan, who composed plenty chances to measure in both. By adding a loss to go along with the win this weekend, the group now sits at 7 in the joining of 11 (conference: 2-4, out-of-conference: 4-4). While a 7th place complete is not the worst thing the Cardinals could do, as it would pledge them access in to the NESCAC playoffs, they will no skepticism look to upgrade upon their stream record when they fool around Roger Williams on Wednesday, Oct. 5 and strife with discussion basement-dweller Bates on Saturday, Oct. 8. Both of the those games are athome.
Head Of NASA Joins AFA’s 2011 Air & Space Conference Line-Up
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Merri Shaffer, Air Force Association, +1-703-247-5847
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ –The Air Force Association is gratified to publicize Charles Bolden, the stream Administrator of NASA, has assimilated the choice of speakers at AFA’s 2011 Air Space Conference and Technology Exposition , to be hold September 19 – 21, 2011, at the Gaylord National Resort Convention Center in National Harbor, only opposite the river from Alexandria and mins from downtown Washington, D.C.
AFA’s annual Air Space Conference brings together comparison Air Force leadership, attention experts, academia and stream aerospace specialists from around the world to confer the stream problems and challenges confronting America and the aerospace community.
Bolden had a 34-year vocation with the Marine Corps, that includes his 14 years as a associate of NASA’s Astronaut Office. As a naval aviator, Bolden flew more than 100 war missions in North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, whilst stationed in Namphong, Thailand, from 1972-1973. As an astronaut, he has journeyed to circuit 4 times aboard the space convey from 1986-1994, autocratic two of the missions. His flights enclosed deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope and the initial joint U.S.-Russian convey mission.
Bolden was allocated as the twelfth Administrator of NASA on July 17, 2009. As the highest-ranked authorized of the U.S.’s space agency, he leads the NASA group and manages its resources to allege the agency’s missions and goals.
This year’s Air Space Conference boasts more than 50 sessions and an expo building displaying the ultimate advancements in air and space technology. Other guest speakers will add the Secretary of the Air Force, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. For a full list of speakers, go here .
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Antiretroviral Treatment Is HIV Prevention: The Proof Is Here
Contact: Lindsey Rodger
lindsey.rodger@iasociety.rog
International AIDS Society
Antiretroviral treatment is HIV prevention: The explanation is here
Monday, 18 July, 2011 (Rome, Italy) — A special press discussion at the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) will currently underline a row consisting of researchers from the CDC TDF2 study, the Partners PrEP Study and the HPTN 052 study. They will be assimilated by Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of the HIV Department of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Elly Katabira, IAS 2011 International Chair and President of the International AIDS Society (IAS). The IAS 2011 discussion non-stop yesterday, Sunday 17 July and runs until Wednesday 20 July and is being attended by over 5000 researchers, clinicians and residents leaders.
In light of announcements this past week about new information on PrEP effectiveness, both the HPTN 052 brief event (16.30, SR1) and press discussion have been stretched to add presentations on the Partners PrEP Study and the CDC’s TDF2 study, both of that were expelled on 13 July in the US. The display on the CDC investigate was originally scheduled for a late breaker event at IAS 2011 on Wednesday 20 July. “Treatment is avoidance and these 3 studies supply the proof,” mentioned Katabira. “The XI International AIDS Conference in Vancouver in 1996 is remembered as the discussion that heralded the attainment of multiple antiretroviral treatment. The IAS 2011 Conference will be remembered as the commencement of the treatment as avoidance revolution.”
“These studies spot a branch indicate in HIV scholarship and in HIV prevention,” mentioned Stefano Vella, IAS 2011 Local Co-Chair and Research Director at the Istituto Superiore di Sanit (ISS). “The obligatory dare right away is to exercise treatment as avoidance in the building world.”
Press discussion line up:
Chair: Stefano Vella: IAS 2011 Local Co-Chair and Research Director at the Istituto Superiore di Sanit (ISS)
Myron Cohen: HPTN 052 Protocol Chair and Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health and Director of the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina
About the HPTN 052 study:
The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 investigate found that group and women, who were already putrescent with HIV, had a marked down danger of transmitting the pathogen to their uninfected passionate allies by 96% by early arising of multiple antiretroviral care (cART). HPTN 052 moreover found that early arising of cART benefits the HIV-infected individual.
HPTN 052 was written to weigh either early contra behind use of cART by HIV-infected people would lower delivery of HIV to their uninfected allies and gain the HIV-infected people as well. During the march of the study, 39 participants who had been HIV-uninfected at the start of the investigate became putrescent with HIV. Of those, 29 were related transmissions, where the pathogen from the originally-infected associate was fixed by genetic review to be the source of infection in the newly putrescent passionate partner. Only a of the 29 infections occurred in the early cART arm. Based on the ultimate analyses, this a delivery many expected occurred shut to the time the couple enrolled in the investigate and before HIV viral riposte could have been suppressed by cART in the putrescent participant.
The new analyses moreover supply more perception as to how early arising of cART benefits the HIV-infected person. Individuals who were put on early cART maintained aloft total CD4 counts than those in the behind arm, who received treatment when their CD4 counts fell next 250 cells/mm or an AIDS-related event occurred. Early cART was moreover associated with a 41% shrinking in HIV-related illnesses or death, a send gain is to HIV-infected partner. The arguable termination of HIV amid HIV-infected people in the early treatment arm suggests prospective effect on confluence when the putrescent particular is sensitive that their cART might moreover gain their partner.
Michael C.Thigpen: Principal investigate examiner and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA
About the TDF2 study:
The CDC TDF2 investigate was a randomized, placebo-controlled hearing examining the safety and efficiency of a once-daily inscription containing tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine (TDF/FTC, well known by the brand name Truvada) for shortening the danger of HIV merger amid heterosexual group and women at two sites in Botswana. In add-on to investigate medication, all participants received a thorough package of HIV avoidance services. The investigate provides burly indication that a every day verbal sip of antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV infection can lower HIV merger amid uninfected people unprotected to the pathogen by heterosexual sex. The study, conducted in partnership with the Botswana Ministry of Health, found TDF/FTC marked down the danger of appropriation HIV infection by rounded off 63 percent on the whole in the investigate race (95% CI, 21.5 to 83.4; p= 0.0133) ,and by 78 percent amid hearing participants believed to be receiving investigate medications (95% CI 41.2 to 93.6, p=0.0053). Adherence (as deliberate by pill count) was high, both amid those receiving TDF/FTC and those receiving remedy (84.1 percent and 83.7 percent, respectively). Reported passionate danger actions was identical between the two investigate arms. Consistent with other PrEP studies, rough analyses did not pick out any poignant safety concerns associated with every day use of TDF/FTC.
Jared Baeten: Co-leader of the Partners PrEP Study and epidemiologist at the University of Washington, USA
About the Partners PrEP Study:
This is a stage III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled hearing of every day verbal tenofovir and emtricitabine/tenofovir is to avoidance of HIV-1 merger amid HIV-1 seronegative allies in heterosexual HIV-1 serodiscordant partnerships. The investigate is saved by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. The University of Washington concurrent the trial, in conspiring with investigators at 9 sites in Kenya and Uganda. The investigate enrolled 4758 HIV-1 serodiscordant couples; HIV-1 uninfected allies were incidentally reserved in next to figures to a of 3 investigate groups: a group received tenofovir, a emtricitabine/tenofovir, and a relating placebo. All investigate participants received a thorough package of HIV-1 avoidance services. On 10 July 2011, the Partners PrEP Study eccentric Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) recommended, after review of the investigate data, that the investigate results be publically reported and the remedy arm be discontinued, since decisive protest of HIV-1 insurance from pre-exposure treatment (PrEP) in the investigate population. Tenofovir marked down HIV-1 danger by 62% (95% CI 34 to 78, p=0.0003), emtricitabine/tenofovir by 73% (95% CI 49 to 85, p
Anthony Fauci: Director, NIAID, USA
Fauci will acknowledgement on the implications for avoidance research. He will speak about the combined significance of these studies in anticipating new HIV avoidance methods and the confidence that these combinations when noticed in total will help to finish the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Gottfried Hirnschall: Head of the HIV Department at the WHO, Switzerland
Over the past year, WHO has been building recommendations for couples HIV contrast and counseling. More than half of all people living with HIV do not know their infection status, and therefore, might broadcast HIV unknowingly. By allies contrast together and jointly disclosing their assessment results, couples can pick up about their options for HIV avoidance and treatment.
The commentary of the 3 cited studies on top of will be reflected in WHO discipline for couples HIV contrast and conversing and moreover to rise broader superintendence on the vital use of antiretrovirals for treatment and avoidance of HIV.
Elly Katabira: International Chair IAS 2011 and IAS President
Katabira will speak about the implications of the 3 cited studies for HIV professionals
Online Coverage of IAS 2011 at www.ias2011.org
The online Programme-at-a-Glance, existing by the website, includes links to abstracts, together with event slides with audio and speeches (all brief commentary are embargoed until date and time of delivery at the conference). Additional online programming is supposing by IAS 2011′s two authorized online partners: Clinical Care Options and NAM. Reporters and others can moreover follow key developments on the IAS 2011 blog at or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ias2011 .
About the IAS 2011 Organizers
IAS: The International AIDS Society (IAS) is the world’s heading eccentric society of HIV professionals, with over 16,000 members from more than 196 countries working at all levels of the universal reply to AIDS. Our members add researchers from all disciplines, clinicians, open illness and residents practitioners on the frontlines of the epidemic, together with process and programme planners. The IAS is the protector of the biennial International AIDS Conference and lead organizer of the IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, that is currently being hold in Rome, Italy.
ISS: The Istituto Superiore di Sanit (ISS) is the heading technical and systematic body of the Italian National Health Service. Its activities add research, clinical trials, and manage and practice in open health. It moreover serves as a major national clearing-house for technical and systematic information on open illness issues. Among other things, the Institute conducts systematic research in a far-reaching accumulation of fields, from cutting-edge molecular and genetic research, to population-based studies of danger factors for disease and disability, to Global Health research.
Further information:
In Rome:
Onsite Media Centre Landline No. +39 068 0241 756
International media:
Lindsey Rodger
lindsey.rodger@iasociety.org
Michael Kessler
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+39 348 686 8417
Italian media:
Andrea Tomasini
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+39 329 263 4619
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Five Tips For Starting Your Meetings On Time
Takeaway: Meetings that beginning late are frequently emasculate and disorganized, and they lend towards to run over. Here are a few ways to obtain your meetings off to the correct beginning – and correct on time.
We all know that meetings frequently take a lot more time than they need to. This happens for two reasons: Either they take longer than they were ostensible to (or run off the tracks) or they do not beginning on time. Here are 5 tips to obtain your teleconference and Web meetings to beginning on time, that will help you hang them up in a timely fashion.
1: Send an iCal entice Don’t only discuss it people about the meeting; send a proper call in for it. When you use your letter customer to set up a meeting, it uses the typical iCal format. All leading email/calendar packages agree to it and can use it to automatically increase the discussion to the calendar. This will ensure that your discussion is not forgotten, and you can examine the responses to see who has agreed or declined the invitation.
In Outlook (and maybe other customers as well), you can moreover set the follow-up time; we suggest 15 mins before the start. Recipients who do not set a follow-up might not observe the arriving discussion until it’s as well late. While you’re at it, you may wish to send out any ancillary files with this email, such as the slip deck. That won’t help the discussion beginning on time, but it can unequivocally edit the meeting. I’ve found that it is quicker to examination element that was already sent out than to tumble a garland of new data in a discussion and then hoop the questions.
2: Include the indispensable data When you send your discussion invitation, it needs to have the subsequent to things to be useful:
Phone number and PIN (if needed) is to audio end
Instructions for fasten the online finish of it, inclusive any login information
A couple to any program that might be indispensable is to online conferencing
Meeting delays frequently come about when attendees can’t simply find out how to obtain in to the meeting. Make sure that this data is in the call in itself, not only emails deliberating the meeting, so it is existing when participants obtain the reminders from their calendars.
3: Get in to the discussion early Many discussion systems do not enable participants to come together the discussion until the horde does. By getting in to the discussion early, you will ensure that everybody else can obtain in as well. And if there are any conflicts with renting the conference line or other resources, it’s improved to find out 5 mins early than the very short time everybody else is mission in to the meeting. This will moreover give you time to obtain your P.C. ready for any shade pity you may wish to do. Make sure that your browser has only applicable tabs open. Close out any applications that make “toast” on the shade (like email, IM clients, etc.), that may be distracting and might manifestation sensitive or personal information. The final thing you need is for your coworkers or customers to see a “Hey baby, what’s up?” IM from your associate come up on your screen.
4: Test your collection in allege Software has a bent to not work as approaching when it is many annoying for you to have it fail. If you need any program for your meeting, assessment it well in advance. Also, any slip decks should obtain a last-minute examination for both proper operation and content. It’s been my experience that it’s easy to unwittingly open the incorrect PowerPoint record (which can sometimes result in problems) since you are perplexing to obtain the introductions completed whilst digging by your files at the same time.
5: Avoid scheduling problems Some folks are frequently late to meetings since they’re requisitioned back to back, and progressing meetings are running over. You may moreover have problems when meetings are scheduled is to very beginning of the workday or right away after lunch. Not only can people obtain scored equally up, but those are important times for emergencies to come up that need evident attention. Try to report your meetings after that in the sunrise or afternoon so that people will unquestionably be in the office and not traffic with a “late final night…” type of problem, and use your monthly calendar network to prevent back-to-back meetings.
Other tips? Do your meetings always appear to beginning late? Do you have any specific strategies that help you beginning meetings on time and keep them on track?