Comic O'Doherty wins in Edinburgh

The Irish comedian David O'Doherty has won the UK's most prestigious funniness award.

The Dubliner won the 2008 Intelligent Finance Comedy Award for his picture 'Let's Comedy' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The director of the laurels, Nica Burns, said that O'Doherty's record was "perfectly delightful'.

She added: "An hour with David O'Doherty fills the domain with laughter and charm and sends you home on a wave of happiness."

O'Doherty, wHO has been performing for 10 days, thanked his father and brother for helping him break into the mankind of stick up comedy.

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Gender And Culturally Tailored Interventions Help Curb STDs In Black Girls

�Black girls who undergo gender and culturally bespoke HIV interventions are significantly less likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease.


The study by Emory University public health researchers is being presented at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. It analyzed the self-reported sexual behaviour and condom usage among 439 sexually active black female girls between the ages of 15 and 21.


Some of the girls participated in an HIV intervention called HORIZONS, a multi-modality, relationship-focused treatment emphasizing pagan and sexuality pride, HIV knowledge, communication, condom habit skills and healthy relationships.


The HORIZONS intervention was administered in two four-hour group roger Huntington Sessions and augmented with four brief personalised telephone contacts designed to reinforce safer sex motivations. The grouping of pres Young women in the comparison, or control group, participated in one HIV bar group session.


The researchers found that girls who participated in the HORIZONS interference were less likely to have contracted a STD and were more potential to systematically use condoms during sex when compared to the girls wHO did non undergo HORIZONS training.


"African-American adolescent females seeking treatment for STDs ar at heights risk for HIV. However, no interventions have demonstrated efficacy in reducing HIV-associated sexual behaviors among this vulnerable subgroup," says Ralph DiClemente, PhD, Candler prof of populace health at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, and study co-author.


"We found that gender-tailored and culturally-congruent interventions can trim back bacterial STD infections and enhance HIV-preventive behaviors," DiClemente says.


The HORIZONS intervention program was created at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health by researchers DiClemente and Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH. The program is at present being used as a model nationwide.


In addition to DiClemente and Wingood, work authors were Eve Rose, MSPH, Jessica Sales, PhD, and Delia Lang, PhD, MPH, all of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Angela Caliendo, MD, PhD of the Emory University School of Medicine; and James Hardin, PhD, of the University of South Carolina, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Reference: WEPE0346 Development and Evaluation of an HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention Tailored for High-Risk African-American Female Adolescents Seeking Treatment at STD Clinics.


Emory University


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Kate Voegele headlining via MySpace

Tour kicks off Friday and includes 40 dates




Singer-songwriter Kate Voegele will be the first MySpace Records artist to land a sponsored headlining tour. The University of Phoenix is sponsoring the artist's 40-date North American "Back 2 School" trek, which launches Friday at the Glass House in Pomona, Calif.

As part of the sponsorship, Voegele, world Health Organization is a psychology major at the University of Phoenix, will chronicle her experience on the road through blogs and video diaries via MySpace.com/kateontour. The 21-year-old vocalizer also will upload sub-rosa footage from the term of enlistment, post bulletin updates and maintain the site's "Ask Kate" assembly. Part of the online content will delve into Voegele's effort to balance two college courses patch playing concerts every night.

Under the portion out, University of Phoenix volition cover some of Voegele's touring expenses in exchange for stigmatisation on Myspace, according to MySpace Records GM J Scavo.

"It's all wrapped up in this bigger ad package sold by MySpace," Scavo aforementioned. "The centrepiece is the media that's running on myspace.com, which drives traffic to this co-branded page."

Scavo far-famed that MySpace has been proactive in organizing one-off concerts and branding tours, and sees tour sponsorships as the "next evolutionary step" for the social networking site.

"The MySpace sales staff feels embolden at present to go offer these far more complex and integrated packages to advertisers," he said. "If we can maintain doing this, it adds awareness and creates some support for our efforts as a label."

The label exec is quick to note, however, that MySpace Records will continue to provide artists with fiscal tour support even if a sponsor isn't involved. "I would never wait for an advertiser to put a band on tour," Scavo said. "They need to be on tour."

Meanwhile, Voegele spent much of 2007 opening shows for such artists as Ben Lee, Matt Nathanson and Natasha Bedingfield, among others. "She's done sporadic headlining dates but has never through a full tour," Scavo said. "This is where it pays off."

Voegele, world Health Organization launched her career on primetime adolescent soap "One Tree Hill," is touring in support of her debut album "Don't Look Away," which has sold 187,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The artist's collective digital tracks deliver sold 435,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Voegele's upcoming jaunt, which wraps Oct. 5 at Holloway Hall Auditorium in Salisbury, Md., will feature support in respective cities from artists Matt White, Amy Kuney, Keaton Simons, Brendan James, Josh Hoge and Leslie Roy.