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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – The Tennessee Tech softball team found itself on the short end of some close games Saturday as it lost a pair of games to SIU Edwardsville by the scores of 2-0 and 4-3.
Game one of today's doubleheader saw Tech take a 2-0 loss to the Cougars, as both teams combined for 10 hits and two walks.
TTU's Claudia Harke and SIUE's Erika Taylor cruised through the first five innings, as neither team was able to get that first run across the plate.
The Cougars finally broke through in the bottom of the sixth as the Cougars opened the inning with double and added a walk to put two on with one out. The Golden Eagles lifted Harke, for Whitney Cummings.
Cummings managed to get the second out on a strikeout, but an RBI single off the bat of Chelsea Yankolovich and a TTU fielding error allowed a pair of runs to score.
TTU then went 1-2-3 in the top of the seventh as Taylor earned her 12th victory of the season. Harke took the loss as she fell to 0-4 on the season.
Game two featured another early pitcher's duel as TTU's Holly Thomas and SIUE's Ali Downing kept both teams off the scoreboard through three.
The Golden Eagles would strike first in the top of the fourth as they strung together three hits, including a two-run double from Thomas, to take a 3-0 lead.
The Cougars responded with their own three-run inning in the bottom of the sixth to tie it up at three.
SIUE's momentum carried over into the bottom of the seventh as the Cougars loaded the base with nobody out. Cummings later walked in the winning run, as SIUE took the 4-3 victory.
Cummings took the loss, falling to 5-7, while SIUE's Lindsay Coleman earned the win as she improved to 4-1.
Tech (15-17, 6-10 OVC) wraps up its three-game series with SIUE Sunday, at 1 p.m.


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HOTEL and APARTMENT: We are in postwar when Josep Casanovas and Marginet, second son from la Torre has to leave Prullans to earn his life. He works in the stores of Jorba from Manresa but cannot stop thinking every day about Prullans and the Sierra del Cadi . He explains in detail the landscape of his village to his peers; finally he comes back to Prullans of homesickness. There he meets a young girl from Martinet daughter from la Fonda Pyrenees, Maria Teresa Isern and Planes and he marries her. Between them comes the project of making a hotel to offer people the opportunity to enjoy the landscape of Prullans. They are taken for crazy by the prullanencs.
With the post-war misery they collected the stones of an old woollen factory and went to the forest to fetch wood to build the first building of the Hotel Muntanya, it was in 1944 but the hotel was not inaugurated until 1947 after the birth of their first daughter, Montserrat. At that time you had to make a long journey by train from Barcelona or from Perpignan to Puigcerdà, there take the bus and then the hotel had a service of stagecoach a carriage pulled by a mule who fetched the guests in the road. Getting to the hotel was quite an epic.
This first building was built in an open field around a plantation of apples and pears.The hotel had various stages of construction each time enlarging it. The rooms were all without bathrooms and many guests tell the stories of how they should watch for the doors when someone came out enter quickly.
In the early 70's in the opposite house the Maria Montserrat residence was built with spacious rooms and mostly with bathroom. In 1987 the founder Josep Montserrat Casanovas died and then Montserrat took the hotel management supported by her husband and children. Shortly after, the residence Maria Montserrat was closed until 1996 when it was reformed and then the aparthotel Ca l' Aurèn raised.
This is the story of one building but in a parallel and inseparable way the history of the family Casanovas-Isern and especially all the guests stories flow too. Today and over 60 years later are still coming the third and fourth generations of the first guests. We are still writing the story together and the Hotel Muntanya is still a quality reference for the holidays in the Pyrenees.
CAMPING: About 1969 Artur Isern and Domingo was still a farmer. Seeing that his children were getting older and that he did not really see much future in his profession he decided to invest in the tourism world. So he began to make land swaps to make the field near the N-260 be enough large to open a camping. The beginnings were as usual not easy and often the marketing belonged in stopping the caravans passing through the road to Andorra and propose them to stop their trip and install at the camping with such beautiful views over the Cadi.
The first pool was a raft in the river of Vial. Later, with the water of the river was built a pool that today would be seen as dam and not a swimming pool. Undoubtedly these bathing areas were a revolution in the village of Prullans.
What certainly was a revolution in the world of our camping was when in 1975 it became the first winter camping in Spain. By adapting all facilities for the cold and open all the year
One anecdote that shows the vision future of Arturo Domingo is when he planned to buy some RENFE old wagons to put them on the camping. Finally he did not do it but certainly after the years this idea was realized with the bungalows
The bungalows that now fill all the camping.
In 1967 Mr. Artur Isern and Domingo inaugurated the Camping la Cerdanya in Prullans. At that time the camping was open in the summer season and guests of those times were foreign tourists who were passing to Andorra and seeing the camping they stop for some days or familiar national tourism most of the metropolitan area Barcelona.
The policy of the camping was to win the loyalty of guests. Those families began to come each summer.
Due to the inclement weather the summer season is very short and if we add to that the increasing logical demands of comfort due to the society evolution, it is normal that progressively families decide to buy caravans.
The number of caravans is increasing each year and quickly come to occupy most of the plots. The comfort of these accommodations and the existence of ski resorts very close to the camping make guests ask if they can install the caravan during the ski season.
In 1975, seeing the possibilities offered by opening in winter works begin to open (hot water, heating in bathrooms, restaurant, etc.) and we are also pioneers in installing solar thermal panels.
In 1976 the camping la Cerdanya is the first camping to open also during the winter season around all the Spanish State.
It is also in 1976 that are inaugurated the first 3 bungalows to find an accommodation that allow comfort at the camping all the year.
This allows many families that came during the summer season also to come in winter season.
The bad weather again plays against and even if there is progresses on the caravans when snow often they cannot come. These leads to strengthening the systems think on advanced solutions or carried the first mobile homes.
In 1989 are made the necessary reforms to adapt to the camping to the new tourism rules camping.
In 1991 they proceed to enlarge the camping and at different stages bungalows have been installed since many families getting older still want to come back to the camping with more comfort camping.
What the Camping la Cerdanya has made since 1947 is to loyalty guests and adapt to the changes and trends of their guests. We have always been an innovator and pioneer company in the world of camping. Proof of the efficacy in this loyalty is that many of the first guests are still coming to our camping and many others have remained in the region to buy second homes in Prullans and in the surrounding villages.
Right now with 330 plots and 40 bungalows it is the largest camping in the province.

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Ralph D. Thrash, 76, died May 15, 2014, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 6, 1938, in Stratford, Okla., the son of Howell and Buenos (Ayers) Thrash.
Ralph graduated from Wichita West High School and then attended Friends University. On Oct. 29, 1955, he married Joan Duryee Crawford in Wichita. He and Joan lived in Wichita at that time.
In 1968, they moved to Peabody where they owned the grocery store until 1980. They then moved to Hutchinson and owned the Jack and Jill Grocery from 1980 until 1987. In 1993, he started Sunset Pawn, which he was currently a co-owner of and was semi-retired.
Ralph was a member of Eastwood Church of Christ and was a member of the former South Hutchinson Lions Club.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Joan Thrash; sons, Russell Thrash and wife, Suzanne, of Wichita, Scott Thrash and wife, Carol, and Darin Thrash, all of Hutchinson; brother, Gary Thrash of Bethany, Okla.; sisters, Dowanna Harrison of Bethany and Donnal Mitchel of Henrietta, Texas; 11 grandchildren, Jeromy Thrash, Stephanie Ricketts, Jamie Washburn, Torie Thrash, Travis Thrash, Trevor Thrash, Derek Thrash, Stacia Biel, Tasha Thrash, Angel Thrash, and Eric Pettay; 13 great-grandchildren; and his two dogs, Pierre and Sophia.
He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Tracy Thrash; grandson, Chris Thrash; brothers, Harold Richard Thrash and Ross Eugene Thrash; and a sister, Nellie Thrash.
Funeral service was at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 17, 2014, at Eastwood Church of Christ with Jimie-Wray Mead and Duane Eggleston presiding. Burial followed in Memorial Park Cemetery. Family greeted friends Friday at Elliott Mortuary.
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Linda Lovelace, touted as "the world's first porn star" thanks to her role in the adult film "Deep Throat."
Linda Marchiano, a wife, mother, and human rights activist who spoke out against the porn industry.
It may seem unlikely, but Lovelace and Marchiano were one and the same, and actress Amanda Seyfried was tasked with portraying both sides of the complex character in the new film "Lovelace," in theaters now.
"I had an idea of who this woman was and I think most people did because she's a household name," said Seyfried on a recent summer afternoon in Beverly Hills.
"I was born in the mid-'80s and I had this idea of who this woman was, and she represented so much that really didn't represent who she was in any way, shape or form… None of that reflects who she really was.
"And I like that kind of story. It's unfortunate and it's a true story and I think it's what you don't expect at all her life to be."
The film plays into these perceptions of who people thought Marchiano was by filming a seemingly willing and liberated Seyfried, who bares it all in many scenes before flipping the switch and telling the story portrayed in Marchiano's autobiography "Ordeal."
Central to the story is Marchiano's mother, played by the almost unrecognizable Sharon Stone in dowdy clothes and makeup.
Though some may see her character as a villain, second to Peter Sarsgaard's character Chuck Traynor, Stone didn't see it that way.
"I saw her as a mother who was doing the best that she could with all that she knew in a time that was that way," Stone said. She was someone "who really did love her daughter but came from a very damaged past."
"She still put the dinner on the table every night, which is something that really isn't happening now — most families don't sit down and have a family dinner every night. So there's good and not good. I mean it was probably in great part her fault that this situation happened, but it was still also probably in great part because of the strength of her getting it together and making those family dinners and really pushing her daughter, that her daughter also had the strength to pull herself out of it."
Central to getting Stone on board with the project were the film's directors, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who were also behind the films "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt" and "The Times of Harvey Milk."
Stone, who is an avid AIDs activist, says the directors' integrity and sincerity made her want to get involved.
"I mean, this is a very small film. This film has like zero budget. The whole film was made in 25 days, you gotta realize, on a shoestring," Stone says.
"They made it for no money, nobody got paid, we worked on all practical locations. There was practically no set dressing, they found everything. We drove ourselves to work. You had to do it for the love of the project. This was a real guerilla film to make. I think we all made it because we believed in the project and we thought the filmmakers were exceptional."
It was the filmmakers who also had an influence on Seyfried and her ability to immerse herself in the role.
"There was just a lot at stake and I feel emotionally I just had to embody her and believe in her 100 percent and tell her story. … And I feel like this was the first time I actually feel like a real actor because of this movie, because of this role," Seyfried said.
"I think with Rob and Jeff, when I first met them, they have so much integrity and they really wanted to tell the story from (Marchiano's) point of view. That was the most important thing and I felt safe in their hands. It didn't seem as scary as I would have thought it would have felt."
To prepare for their roles, both Stone and Seyfried read Marchiano's autobiography; in 2002, Marchiano, born Linda Boreman, died from injuries sustained in a car crash at 53.
Though Stone did not want to necessarily impersonate Marchiano's mother, she says she did want to capture a certain essence of her, which she feels confident she was able to do.
"I spent time with her grandchildren the other night, and they were so supportive and said that they really felt that they were with their grandmother when they saw the movie," Stone said. "That was the greatest compliment, when you get something of the actual person, that's very rewarding."
Though Stone has done some dowdy roles in her career, she thinks this one in particular is gaining notoriety because, as she says, "sex sells."
But she hopes that this type of movie will continue the conversation about women's rights.
"I do think it's very timely because it's shocking how much we still have to continue to fight for women's rights. It's shocking and appalling frankly," Stone said.
"I mean, it's horrifying to see the way that she was manipulated and forced into this position but we can see that this is a repetitive cycle and why it's so important that this kind of communication remain present and available to all people and why women's right are so important and why women should be able to continue to speak to each other and to their children."


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Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and more react to the loss of the country star
He was the "greatest singer of all time," according to Brad Paisley, and on Friday, legendary singer George Jones's passing had the country community remembering him fondly. Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton and others took to Twitter to share their love and respect of the singer, who died at age 81 Friday.
Jones was scheduled to start his farewell tour this May, culminating with a final concert this November in Nashville, Tenn. Tickets were already sold out for the show which was to include Garth Brooks, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Rogers, Kid Rock and Cyndi Lauper.
See how the country music community has mourned the loss of George Jones and honored the life he lived.
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Given that I rarely get out of the saddle when racing, climbing, etc Should most of my intervals also be in the saddle?
Is there much benefit to doing out of the saddle intervals other than for sprint training?
I have no problems getting my HR up high enough in the saddle for over 45secs, but can't get as high power, HR, etc for under this.


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I'm feeling overwhelmed this week. Icky.
A couple of things have thrown me off my center, perhaps. Like my good friend's threatened labor now at 30w gestation. Like my sister-in-law's straight-forward CBAC yesterday – don't get me wrong, I'm thankful, but it's still affecting me. Like having to go back to work in less than two weeks – survival mode. Like all of the projects that I haven't accomplished this winter break. Like my birthday coming tomorrow – gross late-30s number! Like CBA2C vs. VBA2C vs. CBA2C vs. VBA2C and on and on.
What do you do when you're feeling overwhelmed and ineffective? Any suggestions? It's really causing me to stagnate and procrastinate.
It's not like I'm doing absolutely NOTHING. It's just that I feel like I'm hiding in my birth research and stressing about a lot of different things and not actually accomplishing things in a timely fashion. I just need to break the cycle. I probably need a to do list – maybe a reward chart?! Haha!


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, facing budget cuts from the debt-ridden state of Illinois and the federal government, turned to the private sector on Thursday to finance $7.2 billion in rebuilding of the city's aging subways, sewers and schools.
Emanuel, who laid off hundreds of workers in his first year in office to close a $636 million gap in the city's $6.3 billion budget, said no taxes would be raised to pay for infrastructure he said would create 30,000 jobs over the next three years.
He said the infrastructure would be paid for with further cuts in the city bureaucracy, building retrofits to shave 25 percent off the city's energy bill, and user fees and bond sales to pay back, and provide a profit, to private investors.
Watchdog groups expressed caution about tapping private groups for financing to pay for sorely needed infrastructure improvements.
"It's reasonable for him to look for private sources of funding, because he can't look forward to state funding," with Illinois' dire finances, said Laurence Msall of the watchdog Civic Federation. The federal government is similarly hard-pressed.
In a speech with former President Bill Clinton, a champion of infrastructure trust funds, Emanuel said five investment firms involved in such financing already expressed interest in participating. He did not name the finance firms.
"The age of our infrastructure is no longer a leg-up, it is holding us back," Emanuel said.
He said he planned to build new schools and renovate older ones, repave half the city's streets, add another new runway at O'Hare International Airport, expand park space, and rebuild sewers and rail lines.
The city has a mixed record on private investment.
In 2008, a 75-year lease of its parking meter system for a one-time $1.15 billion payment was sharply criticized as fees went up. Emanuel's predecessor Richard Daley spent much of the proceeds to close a budget deficit, a factor in a downgrade of the city's credit rating in 2010.
Chicago's credit rating remains solid, analysts said though watchdogs and credit rating agencies have cautioned against taking on too much new debt or dipping into reserves.
The nation's third-largest city also has a reputation for public corruption and for handing out no-bid contracts to friends of the powerful, though Emanuel has taken steps to make the process more transparent, said University of Illinois-Chicago political analyst Dick Simpson.
"There certainly has been corruption in the past. The issue is will there be in the future?" Simpson said.
The Civic Federation said the city's debt service was taking a larger share of its budget than in other U.S. cities.
Chicago paid out nearly 12 percent of its 2010 budget to service its debt, down from 15 percent two years earlier but higher than Los Angeles' 8 percent and New York's 6.5 percent. The city has $14 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, and its school system's budget deficit is forecast to expand to $1.2 billion in 2014.
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Mr McAfee, 67, had been held for the past week in a Guatemalan immigration detention centre after sneaking over the border from Belize.
Guatemalan immigration officials escorted him to the Guatemala City airport, where he boarded a flight to Miami, Florida. "I'm free, I'm going to America," he told reporters, before the plane took off.
Police in Belize have said he is a person of interest but not a suspect in the shooting of Gregory Viant Faull, an American, there last month.
Mr McAfee was born in Britain but moved to the US as a child. He went on to make a fortune from anti-virus software which bears his name. Tonight Fernando Lucero, a spokesman for Guatemala's immigration office, told Reuters: "Complying with migration law, Mr John McAfee is to be deported to his country of origin."
Earlier, Telesforo Guerra, Mr McAfee's lawyer, said he was being released from the detention centre.
Mr Guerra said that a judge had notified him verbally of the ruling.
He added: "For me, it's best that McAfee go to the United States, that's definitely the country where he will be safest. In Guatemala, he runs the risk that anything could happen to him."
Mr McAfee has claimed that he is a victim of persecution by corrupt authorities in Belize and that he could face "summary execution" if he is returned there.
The Belize prime minister Dean Barrow has rejected that, describing Mr McAfee as "bonkers".


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8th ave wrote:we look great on offense and HORRIBLE on defense
agreed just kinda looks like another warriors team...i wana see this change??hopefully the defense emerges second half...il be waiting patiently
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
8th ave wrote:FUK YOU KEVIN MARTIN AND YOU BUSH LEAGUE ASS FOULS
dareedle wrote:Several issues about this game.
1. Stern has the worst refs ... period.
2. Forget the back-up guard experiment (Reggie Williams is our best option at guard off the bench)
3. Rebounding is defense ... the field goal percentage allowed isn't great but any game we outrebound is a step to good defense
Mr. Crackerz wrote:8th ave wrote:FUK YOU KEVIN MARTIN AND YOU BUSH LEAGUE ASS FOULS
living in sacramento, i am all to familiar with my second least favorite player in the NBA. And thats EXACTLY why i hate him. He plays for the foul and the league gives it to this guy. WHat a joke!


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Kanye West blasted for Parkinson's joke in new song
Kanye West is in trouble. Again.
According to TMZ, West is being slammed as "ignorant" and "distasteful" over a song on his new album that uses Parkinson's disease as a punch line.
The song is called "On Sight," and includes the lyric, "A monster about to come alive again/Soon as I pull up and park the Benz/We get this b*tch shaking like Parkinson's."
TMZ reported the American Parkinson Disease Association is understandably upset. The group's Vice President Kathryn Whitford told the website, "We find these lyrics distasteful and the product of obvious ignorance."
The APDA has existed for more than 50 years and is the largest organization in the country dedicated to helping those with Parkinson's and finding a cure.
So far, no one from West's camp has figured out how to spin this and offer a comment.


text: El_Capitan Report post Posted January 13, 2011 There's quite a few threads out there in other forums, but thought I'd include one here. The graphics card I'll be using is the GTX 460 1GB MSI Cyclone. 1. Download NiBiTor.v5.9 - Works with Windows 7 64-bit. You can also find newer versions here. 2. Download nvflash_windows_220.127.116.11 Works with Windows 7 64-bit. Latest version is here. 3. Move everything into one folder. For example: D:\GPU_Overclocking 4. Launch Command Prompt and get to the folder with NVFlash. For example: To get to the D: drive D: To get to the folder cd GPU_Overclocking 5. It's very important to backup your original BIOS for multiple reasons. Name it to something you'll remember that it is the original BIOS. For example: Nvflash -b MSICyclone460Original.rom 6. Now, leave the Command Prompt open, you'll be getting to it in a bit. Launch NiBiTor.exe by double-clicking on it in your Windows Folder. 7. Click on File -> Open BIOS and select your original BIOS you just backed up. 8. You'll see your info update on NiBiTor. Now click on Tools -> Fermi Voltage. 9. The Fermi Voltage Editor will pop up. Click on the Limit dropdown box and select the max allowed voltage, which is 1.2125v. 10. Click Apply and Click on File -> Save BIOS. 11. Rename the new BIOS so you know it's not the original. 12. Now that you have the updated BIOS with the unlocked voltage, you just need to flash it. If you don't have your GPU's in SLI, then all you need to do is run this in the Command Prompt (substitute MSICyclone460.rom for your unlocked voltage BIOS name): Nvflash -4 -5 -6 MSICyclone460.rom If you do have your GPU's in SLI, then run this to find out what position they're in: Nvflash --list Then when you find your GPU's, flash each one individually (assuming they're both the same identical cards): Nvflash -i0 -4 -5 -6 MSICyclone460.rom Nvflash -i1 -4 -5 -6 MSICyclone460.rom 13. Reboot your computer just to be safe. If everything's okay, go to MSI Afterburner and you'll see that your new limit for Core Voltage is 1212mV. NOTE: Please allow for adequate cooling before attempting high voltage overclocks. Not only do you need to cool your GPU, but your memory, and VRM's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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PRINCETON, N.J. - Freshmen Rob Harder and Alwin Firmansyah both broke school records over a decade old to lead Yale on the first day of the Ivy League Championships in Princeton, N.J. The Bulldogs (289 points) trail just Harvard (471) and Princeton (444), and so head to the second of three days of competition with a solid hold on third place.
Harder's record-breaking performance came in the 500-yard freestyle, where he finished second in 4:20.66, good for an NCAA 'B' Cut. That shattered the previous Yale record, set in 2001 by Greg Palumbo '03, by nearly four full seconds. The 500-free proved a strong race for the Elis all around, as Harder's classmate Josh Ginsborg turned in a stellar fifth-place performance (4:26.67), and junior Mike Dominski also earned a 'B' cut with his win of the second heat in 4:24.76, which also bested Palumbo's 2001 mark.
Firmansyah did his share of record book rewriting in the 200-yard IM with a third-place time of 1:47.17. That time, also good enough for a 'B' cut, eeked out the previous Bulldog mark of 1:47.31, set in 2000 by Stephen Fahy '00. Just behind him was another Eli freshman, Andrew Heymann, who took fifth with a 'B' cut time of 1:48.43.
Senior Goksu Bicer was the top Bulldog in the 50-yard freestyle, posting a ninth-place finish and earning Yale's fifth 'B' cut of the day in 20.21. Bicer swam the third leg of the 400-yard medley relay, joined by Firmansyah, Heymann and freshman Mike Lazris. The combination completed the race in 3:16.58 - the sixth 'B' cut time in the first five swimming events for Yale - to round out the day with a fourth-place showing.
On the diving side, sophomore Tyler Pramer was Yale's top performer. He took seventh in the 1-meter event, earning a score of 292.95.
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"And we're at three jobs [now]," she says.
Haas comes face to face with the law of job market supply and demand. Nationally 75,000 jobs have disappeared from the finance and insurance sector.
"And as banks lay off more people, investment banks, former investment banks," she says, "there's just a huge pool of talent out there."
Haas says that for someone like her, she's in her early 50s, the competition can be especially difficult.
I'm just hoping to be able to put myself in a position where I'm an attractive candidate. And for some of the positions that I'm applying for, in my mind that means leaving the Ph.D. off of the resumeLisa Nordeen
Oddly enough, the financial meltdown provided her with a possibility. The federal government had aimed much of the $700 billion bailout money to buy up bad -- or toxic -- mortgage-related securities. Haas said the Treasury Department was planning to subcontract some of that work. And since she's qualified , Haas viewed that as an opportunity to start her own business.
"That changed," she laughs. "Treasury, at least at this point, has decide that was no longer the direction they wanted to go."
So Haas looks again at joining the glut of job seekers reentering the workforce. Minnesota Public Radio has devised a measure of the difficulty of finding work: the job pain index. The measure is based on a number of factors that reflect the supply and demand for labor. And the index is at its lowest point since last April, when the state lost a whopping 11,900 jobs.
The weak labor market is forcing some job-seekers to actually hide their qualifications. Lisa Nordeen of Minneapolis saw her full-time position as an academic advisor at the University of Minnesota eliminated. While there she got her Ph.D.. Since the layoff, she's worked part-time to make ends meet and hasn't been able to land full-time work. She says employers are looking away because she's over qualified.
"I'm just hoping to be able to put myself in a position where I'm an attractive candidate. And for some of the positions that I'm applying for, in my mind that means leaving the Ph.D. off of the resume," she says.
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Skip to comments.The Crisis of American Conservatism: Inherent Contradictions and the End of the Road
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It has long been understood that there is something peculiar, even paradoxical, about conservatism in America. American conservatism is different from conservatism in other countries, even those countries which were the original source of many other American ideas and ideals, i.e., the countries of Europe. Indeed, the very term American conservatism is something of an oxymoron. For most Europeans who came to America, the whole purpose of their difficult and disruptive journey to the New World was not to conserve European institutions but to leave them behind and to create something new, often an entirely new life and even a new identity, for themselves.
In this essay, we will examine how the paradoxes of American conservatism have unfolded and revealed themselves during the period of the last three or four decades. We begin our discussion by noting the three distinct dimensions that have always defined American conservatism. The original and traditional American conservatism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries collapsed in a great debacle during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but this was followed by a creative reinvention of American conservatism during the Great Stagflation of the 1970s. This reinvented conservatism experienced its own debacle during the current Great Recession, which began in 2007 and which continues into the 2010s. We conclude with a review of the current condition of what was once a reinvented, but now seems to be YET another collapsed conservatism, in the light of the elections of 2012. The decisive defeats of the Republican party, particularly in the Presidential and Senatorial elections, have demonstrated that American conservatism will once again have to be reinvented and the Republican party will have to appeal to new constituencies or they, like the Federalists, Whigs, and traditional conservatives before them, will disappear or be eclipsed.
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There is no crisis in conservatism. "Conservatism" is simply the term used to describe traditional values and practices that resulted in the American nation reaching its pinnacle. In short it celebrates individual achievement and responsibility, a code of moral behavior that builds a society based on family and respect for individual rights,and the economic freedom of productive capitalism unburdened by an overly intrusive government. What has changed is the social consensus of the nation. Instead of an emphasis on the individual, the collective takes precedent. Rules , regulations, decrees all directed by a controlling powerful government bureaucracy almost immune to to the wishes of elected officials now dominates individuals and molds their behavior and expectations. This combined with the decadence now celebrated in popular culture and practice is the "crisis" facing dwindling conservatives.
Thanks for posting; sounds interesting.
This essay, which ignores the role of William F. Buckley and the intellectuals around National Review magazine in the late 1950s, isn't historically accurate.
It seems to be revisionist conservative history aimed at low-information types who imagine themselves intellectuals. In other words, it seems to be liberal gibberish.
I think I may take time to join the webcast. Thanks for posting the notice.
This guy loses all credibility in the first paragraph when he is talking about how American conservatism is "different" from that in Europe.
In Europe, socialism is assumed to be the human condition. It is the default government to them. The terms "right" and "left" only denote whether they are international "worker" socialist (left) or nationalist socialist (right). This is why the left in the US can make the connection between Nazis and Republicans—because in their respective continents, both are on the "right" despite the fact that they are as different as night and day.
The US, free market used to be our default condition. So "right" means less government and more freedom and "left" means the opposite.
Europe has worked very hard for 200+ years to re-exert control over the unruly mobs on our side of the pond. They suck us into their wars, they take our scholars and make them Rhodes Scholars, and they show our intelligentsia that the way of the nanny state is the only reasonable way to live.
Our "crisis of conservatism" only exists because half of our people believe that freedom is slavery, war is peace, up is down, and collecting a check from the government is empowering.
What we are, are liberals. Classical liberals. The word was taken from us just as "gay" was taken from us. Liberal used to mean advocating for the freedom of individuals, self-determinism. Now it means the tyrannical oppression of the individual. Modern liberals defile the language as surely as they defile anything else.
The "Crisis of Conservatism" is simply the inability to see or defend against a 100 year communist assault on liberty and freedom. The communists and their ilk learned they could not bomb the West into submission, so they changed their strategy to the Long March through the institutions. Now, after two or three generations, they have succeeded. There was feeble or no conservative defense against this because we thought the merits of freedom, liberty and free enterprise were self-evident.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction — Ronald Reagan
you are correct
Eventually, the fusion will fail. It already is. The GOP seems ready to get rid of social conservatives and security minded ones in order to chase after big money. Which is the smallest number of votes, and the are they are least likely to hold on to (many millionaires are Left leaning, keeps others from achieving the same success they have).
With the path the GOP is on, they are heading for a lot of lost elections. They may be done for as a national power for at least a few election cycles.
This guy blames Glass-Steagle's repeal for the economic crisis?
That's a canard, Europe never passed similar laws and they still had the same crisis. INVESTMENT banks caused it, not commercial ones.
As always, the news of our demise is greatly exaggerated.
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After meeting Keith I switched bands from an organ trio to this acoustic guitar based sound and we had very similar ideas of where it should go. Kate had arranged "Chelsea Morning" and "Joga" for her electric band, but just from the sound of her voice I heard her in this more intimate context. Her arrangements didn't change, but they sound so different in an acoustic setting. I did the arrangements for "Lola" and "How Deep is the Ocean" with this particular band in mind. I wrote "Snow Picnic" for a band I used to play in. I loved the tune, but it felt specific to that band so I had kind of left it behind. When Kate heard itit's a fast melody that jumps all over the place and changes key three times in one barshe liked it, and I wondered if she could sing it. We went through it five or six times, and she had it. It sounds like I wrote it for her voice. We collaborated with Steve Cardenas on "Aquelas Coisa Todas." We each improvised over the solo section, took the phrases we liked the best from all three of us (mostly from Kate), and made a little soli out of it. "Do You Know What It Means" has been getting quite a bit of air play which is fun because we recorded it in Keith's apartment the week we started going out. We tried it a couple of times in the studio, but the feeling wasn't as strong. The more contemporary songs are spontaneous and improvisatory, but the sound and the mood are specificit doesn't just turn into a jam session. It took us maybe seven or eight gigs to get to the point where we could play a tune like "Chelsea Morning" and really create it in the moment but still keep that specific sound it's supposed to have.
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—The Yale men's cross country team ensured they would enter the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships next weekend on a high note after putting on a dominating display at the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Mini Meet on Friday.
Thanks in large part to the performances of junior Alec Borsook, freshman Dan Grosvenor and junior Tom Harrison—each of whom placed in the top 20 overall—the Bulldogs finished third at the meet with 106 points, trailing only Providence (65 points) and hosts CCSU (86 points). Providence and CCSU are currently ranked fourth and eighth, respectively, in the Northeast Region in the latest USTFCCCA poll. Yale is ranked seventh. New Hampshire (145 points), currently ranked 14th in the region, finished behind the Bulldogs in sixth place at the Mini Meet. The Elis also outran several other regional rivals, including the likes of Quinnipiac, Stony Brook, UConn and UMass Lowell.
After finishing first in last year's Mini Meet, the Elis managed another strong finish this year despite missing some of their best runners—many of whom were using this weekend to rest up for the postseason, which begins next weekend. The Bulldogs that did run on Friday certainly made their mark, however, competing in the Mini Meet's 5K race.
Harrison (15:23.25) finished first on the team and 13th overall, falling approximately five seconds shy of his personal record. The performance marked Harrison's second top-seven team finish of this season and was a remarkable improvement from his time of 16:04.28 at last year's Mini Meet, where he placed eighth on the team.
Borsook, meanwhile, picked up where he left off after setting an 8K personal record at the New England Championships two weekends ago, finishing third on the team and 18th overall with a 5K personal record time of 15:28.39. Like Harrison, Borsook showed much improvement with respect the 16:02.75 he ran at last year's Mini Meet. Finishing just ahead of Borsook was Grosvenor (15:27.70), running in just his fifth collegiate race.
Senior Miles Richardson (15:42.26) finished 30th overall in his fourth race of the season. Freshman Ryan Douglas (15:43.41) was the Elis' final scorer of the day, finishing 32nd overall. Douglas' time on Friday, which he registered in just his fifth collegiate race, was a 17-second improvement over his 5K personal record from high school. Sophomore Will Botta (16:01.15) and freshman David Hatch (16:45.92) rounded out the Bulldogs' squad, placing 53rd and 90th, respectively.
Friday's race brings another successful regular season to a close for the Bulldogs. The postseason will begin with the Heptagonal Championships in Princeton, N.J., on Nov. 2. That race will be followed two weeks later by the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championships in New York City—a race that will determine the field for the NCAA Division I National Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., the following weekend.
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The TV star marked her 41st birthday on Wednesday by making her debut on RetailMeNot.com as its The Real Deal blogger, and revisited her poor past, growing up with five siblings in a small town in Illinois.
She writes, "My upbringing certainly influenced my relationship with money, as everyone's does. We grew much of our own food, and I can still remember flipping through the tattered pages of my mom's favorite cookbook, about feeding a family on $12 a week. …"
Garth insists her approach to money hasn't changed over the years, despite finding fame and fortune after landing the role of privileged teen Kelly Taylor on TV show "Beverly Hills, 90210."
She continues, "I'm no Beverly Hills socialite. I've only played one on TV. … I'm nothing like Kelly Taylor. In fact, Beverly Hills is not my scene at all. Yes, I live in L.A. but I don't live in a mansion with a cook and a butler. I guess you could say I'm a little less fancy – and a lot more down to earth."
The actress has been adjusting to life as a single parent following her split from husband Peter Facinelli last year, and she admits she is always on the lookout for a good deal.
The mom-of-three adds, "When you're a single parent, finding a bargain becomes less of a nicety and more of a necessity. That's why, whether I'm ordering books on Amazon, clothes for my girls at Forever 21 or just random stuff at CVS, I try to shop smart. Please follow me on my journey all year long right here at retailmenot.com/blog. I promise to share all of my best bargain finds, some so fine I'm sure even Kelly Taylor would approve.


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I am in Halloween costume HELL! I don't know if you have been following the drama with me on Facebook or not, but this year's Halloween costumes are are by FAR the biggest, stupidest, most elaborate fucking things I have EVER undertaken!!!! Every single day I ask myself : "WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING???!!!!"
I am now on my FIFTH attempt at making thse damn costumes, and it's not looking good. I have tried four other techniques and all of them were utter disasters. I have decided to try and carve the base for our masks our of styrofoam and this fucking Styrofoam has become the BANE of my existence!!!!!!!
I am working with 4 inch thick pieces of styrofoam and I have FOUR pieces of it glued together. I have been hacking away at it with a kitchen knife because the $20 piece of shit Styro Cutter Plus I bought from Michael's SUCKS ASS!!! I broke down yesterday and bought a Hot Knife from Harbor Freight and I am praying to the Halloween Gods that it does the job. If not, I SWEAR we are going as ghosts!!!!!
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~~~One quick note before we get to Thrift Shop Thursday – I have noticed that some of my blog posts have the WRONG video content and I have no idea why. If you go to an older blog post and the video does not match the project, you can always find the correct video on my YouTube Channel. I apologize for any confusion and I will be working on getting it corrected. ~~~
On to happier news – the thrift store has FINALLY put out Halloween decorations and I am sooo excited! I went a little crazy this week and bought several items for my collection of Halloween goodies. Come along with my on my trip to the Thrift Store and see what I got 😀


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There are two sides to Ron Dies alpaca farm, Prairie Wind Alpacas, in Lehigh.
In one way, raising 25 alpacas is serious business. Ron Dies said that he does not want the animals too tame, coming up and wanting attention all the time. The alpacas are livestock and they should be focused on one thing — breeding.
Dies pays close attention to the animals' medical records. He will pay over $10,000 for a top male with a quality bloodline. With alpacas that means their offspring grow fiber that is curly, springy, soft, and thick — the type of fiber that is converted into high-dollar sweaters and jackets. Dies has several male alpacas with high fiber producing ability, including a silver-gray colored male that is valued because of the unique hue. When those males breed with females on other farms, they can fetch fees of $3,000 or more.
The alpaca rancher takes care of his herd because he is protecting his investment. He grows and blends his own feed, rich with vitamins. The food has been tested by Kansas State University. Dies said it is proven to allow his alpacas to live longer, breed more effectively, and produce healthier babies who can walk within 11 minutes of birth.
He makes sure to give the animals shots to worm them, sheers them twice a year, trims their toenails, and cleans their pens thoroughly on a biweekly basis to keep his alpacas healthy.
Business is good. On top of the breeding, with some alpaca babies going for over $10,000, he sells the fiber, and the droppings, which are a nitrogen rich fertilizer.
He also takes care of them because he really likes his animals.
Although he presents himself as an analytical producer, any listener could tell that Dies has, at the very least, a fascination with the idiosyncrasies of his alpacas. He said he can tell what type of winter is coming based on how the alpaca fiber starts to grow in the fall. He's predicting a second-consecutive mild winter.
He remarked that alpacas are smarter than other livestock. His example is that he has trained the alpacas to eat in a designated order. He said on the cue of banging the dinner trough, the animals line up in that order, with the younger animals never disrupting the hierarchy to cut in front of their established brethren.
He has names for each of the alpacas and he said that they know and respond to their names. Angel, Princess, Bella, Magic, Smoke, Cognac, Tico, Rocky, and Southern Comfort all have different personalities. Some of those personalities conflict — two of the males have to be separated because they have a tendency to spit and fight with one another. Rocky, a white Bolivian alpaca, is extremely laid back, bordering on lazy. Dies added that if he fed the animals more than once a day, Rocky would be as round as a barrel.
One of his favorite activities is to sit at the dining room table with his wife, Ruthann, and look out at the alpacas frolicking in the yard from the window. They get a chuckle out of watching the baby alpacas run with the goats up and down the fence line. They can get another perspective of how the personalities of their alpacas coexist without influencing the animals with their presence.
The reason Dies has kept the alpaca farm going for seven years, expanding from two gelded males to a herd of 25 with 14 females, has more to do with his interaction with the animals than the business. He said alpacas are fun animals to care for; their relaxed nature is soothing as a post retirement venture.


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Monday, June 28, 2010
Kirin 20th Anniversary Pure Malt Whisky
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Kirin 20th Anniversary Pure Malt Whisky. 40 per cent alcohol (abv)
Nose: Chopped walnuts mixed in with a tropical fruit salad of pineapple, mango, papaya (paw paw) and pear. Very fresh and clean with some wood varnish, pencil shavings and nutmeg spice adding to the complexity. After about 20 mins, there are notes of vanilla and sweet tobacco.
Palate: Lovely clean malt with a delightful interplay between the walnuts and a coconut oiliness. White pepper and nutmeg. The fruits on the nose are in there but in a more concentrated dried form. Fresh passion fruit.
Finish: White pepper, nutmeg, walnuts, pineapple, papaya, coconut, passion fruit and sweet tobacco. The passion fruit and sweet tobacco flavour hangs on for an age.
General comment: This a highly individual whisky of great complexity. Well done Kirin!
Nonjatta note: This one calls itself a pure malt, which implies it is made from the products of more than one distillery. It is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fuji-Gotemba distillery, which opened in 1973, which would date this bottling to 1993, when Japanese distillers were sometimes a little casual with their use of whisky terms. It was not unknown for single malts to be called pure malts. The distillery's name is plastered across the top of the label in Japanese but it does, however, say "vatted and bottled" by Kirin distillery on the bottom of the label, which implies it is indeed vatted, which raises the interesting question of where the whisky that was not distilled in Fuji-Gotemba came from. The Japanese companies don't tend to share their malts and they certainly did not do much sharing in the nineties, so it would seem quite likely that some of the whisky may have come from outside Japan. Does anyone know any more about this whisky? It certainly sounds delicious.
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After a long hiatus from nonjatta, I couldn't help but notice that looked a lot like Australia in the background and was surprised to see that there are now 2 Aussie contributors on this fine site.
I am a Melbournian myself and know that there is next to no Japanese whisky around.
Dramtastic, what method do you use to acquire your whisky?
Personally i get mine when i go over or from friends, i even grabbed a bargain bottle of Yamazaki 18 off ebay once, a bit over 100 shipped!
- July 6, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Dear Rex
Yes the population of Aussies is increasing. I will leave it to Dramtastic to comment on his nefarious methods (if you send me your email at japanesewhisky at gmail I can send your contact details him).
What were your impressions of the 18?
- July 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM
The 18 was fantastic in my opinion, the Yamazaki 12 was a bit too floral for my liking. Don't get me wrong, its nice but not one i could drink too much of. The 18, well that is a different story, i believe that Luca Chichizola had a spot on review, its big and sweet like a Belgian beer but just as complex as a Scottish whisky aged in a fortified wine cask, it was a while ago that i last had it but the finish was a bit short if i remember. (I prefer a sweeter style or very smoky to take the bite off.)
- July 6, 2010 at 6:56 PM
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Also want to thank the Leader for printing Brian Jarvensivu's views in Reader Opinion disclaiming what publisher Larry Tobin wrote the week before about the shortcomings of the Democratic Party. Wonderful job Brian for bringing out the facts. The power of the press can work both ways. You did a tremendous job of looking up the facts and bringing it to our attention.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korea can cope with a U.S. debt stalemate if it is brief, and welcomes any boost Japan can get from Abenomics - unless Tokyo is using that policy to weaken the yen, the country's finance minister said on Thursday.
Minister of Strategy and Finance Hyun Oh-seok also said slower growth in China, South Korea's largest trade partner, would not create trouble for exporters if it meant a shift to consumption-led growth and away from high investment.
Hyun is in Washington for meetings of the G20 economies and the International Monetary Fund that opened amid a bitter U.S. political fight over raising the United States' $16.7 trillion debt ceiling that has sparked worries a default could trigger a financial crisis that would ripple around the globe.
"If it is a short-term phenomenon, I would not expect a big effect on the Korean economy," he told Reuters in an interview.
"It will be important to see how long it will last and the scope of the delay," added Hyun, who is also deputy prime minister of Asia's fourth largest economy.
Hyun gave a cautious endorsement of Abenomics - the three-pronged economic policy of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that features massive monetary stimulus plan, flexible fiscal policies and structural reforms.
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But Hyun echoed other trade partners of Japan and a G20 statement issued last month in Russia that warned against policies to weaken currency to make exports more competitive. A weaker yen would hurt competing South Korean exports.
"It is not clear if the foreign exchange issue is a part of Abenomics or the result of Abenomics," he said, but it would "not be desirable" if Tokyo was targeting its currency.
Asked about a slowdown in Chinese growth to around 7 percent this year after years of double-digit growth, Hyun said what mattered to South Korea was the quality and sustainability of that growth.
"The core of the growth has transitioned from increased investment to increased consumption, so it is contributing to the global economic stability," he said.
"Such changes in policies in China increase the sustainability of the Chinese growth, thereby contributing to the regional economy and to global economic stability," said Hyun.
The shift to consumption-led growth that Beijing has committed to making would help South Korea increase the range of its exports to China, he added.
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HIV Drugs and the HIV Lifecycle
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The Basics
HIV drugs cannot cure HIV, but they can help you stay healthy by preventing the virus from reproducing (making copies of itself). If HIV is not able to reproduce, it will not infect new cells in your body and your viral load remains low. With a low viral load, you are more likely to have a healthy immune system and less likely to spread HIV to others.
HIV must go through a number of different steps in order to make copies of itself. This is called the HIV lifecycle. All HIV drugs work by interrupting a step in HIV's lifecycle, thereby stopping HIV "in its tracks."
The HIV Lifecycle
Once HIV is in the body, it targets and infects a certain type of white blood cell called a CD4 cell. HIV then takes over or "hijacks" these cells and turns them into factories that produce thousands of copies of the virus. The steps HIV goes through to complete this process are as follows:
- Binding and Fusion: HIV begins to enter a CD4 cell by binding or attaching itself to a specific point, called a CD4 receptor, on the cell's surface. HIV must then bind to a second co-receptor, either the CCR5 co-receptor or the CXCR4 co-receptor. This allows the virus to join or merge with the CD4 cell in a process called fusion. After fusion, HIV releases its RNA (genetic material) and enzymes (proteins that cause chemical reactions) into the CD4 cell.
- Reverse Transcription: HIV's genetic material is called RNA, which contains the "instructions" that will reprogram the CD4 cell so that it produces more viruses. In order to be effective, HIV's RNA must be changed into DNA. An HIV enzyme called reverse transcriptase changes the HIV RNA into HIV DNA.
- Integration: Next, the newly formed HIV DNA enters the nucleus (command center) of the CD4 cell. Another HIV enzyme called integrase combines or integrates HIV's DNA with the CD4 cell's DNA.
- Transcription: Once the virus has become part of (is integrated into) the CD4 cell, it commands the CD4 cell to start making new HIV proteins. The proteins are the building blocks for new HIV viruses. They are produced in long chains.
- Assembly: An HIV enzyme called protease cuts the long chains of HIV proteins into smaller pieces. As the smaller protein pieces come together with copies of HIV's RNA, a new virus is put together (assembled).
- Budding: The newly assembled virus pushes ("buds") out of the original CD4 cell. This new virus is now able to target and infect other CD4 cells.
Approved HIV Drugs
Different classes or groups of HIV drugs block different steps of HIV's lifecycle. There are currently six classes of HIV drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
Entry Inhibitors: These drugs stop (inhibit) HIV from entering a CD4 cell. There are different types of entry inhibitors - fusion inhibitors and receptor blockers (CCR5 antagonists). One of each type is approved:
- Fusion inhibitor: Fuzeon (enfuvirtide or T-20)
- CCR5 antagonist: Selzentry (maraviroc)
Integrase Inhibitors: These drugs interfere with HIV's integrase enzyme. There are three approved integrase inhibitors:
- Isentress (raltegravir)
- Tivicay (dolutegravir)
- Vitekta (elvitegravir)
Nucleoside and Nucleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs or "nukes"): These drugs interfere with HIV's reverse transcriptase enzyme. There are many approved NRTIs:
- Emtriva (emtricitabine or FTC)
- Epivir (lamivudine or 3TC)
- Retrovir (zidovudine or AZT)
- Videx (didanosine or ddI)
- Viread (tenofovir)
- Zerit (stavudine or d4T)
- Ziagen (abacavir)
Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NNRTIs or "non-nukes"): Like NRTIs, these drugs interfere with HIV's reverse transcriptase enzyme. There are a number of approved NNRTIs:
- Edurant (rilpivirine or RPV)
- Intelence (etravirine or ETR)
- Rescriptor (delavirdine)
- Sustiva (efavirenz)
- Viramune (nevirapine)
Protease Inhibitors (PIs): These drugs interfere with HIV's protease enzyme. There are many approved PIs:
- Aptivus (tipranivir)
- Crixivan (indinavir)
- Invirase (saquinavir)
- Kaletra (lopinavir plus ritonavir)
- Lexiva (fosamprenavir)
- Norvir (ritonavir)
- Prezista (darunavir)
- Reyataz (atazanavir)
- Viracept (nelfinavir)
Fixed-Dose Combinations: Although not a separate class, there are fixed-dose drugs that combine two or more HIV drugs from one or more classes in just one pill. This can make dosing easier. There are seven combination pills approved:
- Atripla (Sustiva plus Emtriva plus Viread)
- Combivir (Retrovir plus Epivir)
- Complera (Emtriva plus Viread plus Edurant)
- Epzicom (Epivir plus Ziagen)
- Evotaz (Reyataz plus Tybost)
- Prezcobix (Prezista plus Tybost)
- Stribild (Emtriva plus Viread plus Vitekta plus Tybost)
- Triumeq (Ziagen plus Tivicay plus Epivir)
- Trizivir (Retrovir plus Epivir plus Ziagen)
- Truvada (Emtriva plus Viread)
Boosting Agents: These drugs do not affect HIV's lifecycle; rather, they improve, or 'boost' the level of other drugs in the blood stream so that the other HIV drugs can be taken at a lower dose.
- Norvir (ritonavir)
- Tybost (cobicistat)
For more information on any of these HIV drugs, see The Well Project's HIV Drug Chart.
Combining HIV Drugs
Health care providers often combine drugs from different classes in order to attack HIV at more than one step in its lifecycle. This is because HIV can make changes, called mutations, when it reproduces. Some mutations stop HIV drugs from working. When this happens, we say that HIV has become resistant to that HIV drug.
If you take only one drug (monotherapy) or take a few drugs that all belong to one class, it is easy for HIV to develop mutations that make it resistant to that drug or drug class. However, if you take a combination of drugs from different classes, HIV has a much harder time changing enough to develop drug mutations and resistance.
What does this mean for you? It means that combination therapy with drugs that block HIV at different steps of its lifecycle can prevent most of the production of new HIV. Most importantly, it means slower disease progression and longer life for people living with HIV.
The Bottom Line
Currently five classes of HIV drugs target four steps of HIV's lifecycle. Attacking HIV on multiple fronts by combining drugs from different classes is the best way to slow or stop HIV reproduction. It is also the best way to prevent the development of drug resistance. The approval of new classes of HIV drugs -- and new drugs in the classes already available -- will continue to provide more treatment options for people living with HIV in the future.


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