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Art GutmanFlorida Institute of TechnologyEric DunleavyDCI ConsultingIn August 2006 the 2nd Circuit ruled in two cases that have implications for adverse impact in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) (Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory [KAPL]; on August 14) and adverse impact in Title VII (Gulino v. New York State Education Department; on August 17). The Supreme Court invited the solicitor general to submit briefs expressing the views of the Bush administration in both bases. As this column was being written, the Supreme Court has decided to review Meacham. The Meacham case is of particular interest to the TIP audience because it centers on the meaning of the Reasonable Factors Other than Age (RFOA) statutory defense recently supported by the Supreme Court in Smith v. City of Jackson (2005) in ADEA adverse impact cases. Specifically, this case will force the Court to consider whether the defendant has a burden of production or persuasion when the RFOA defense is invoked. The Gulino case is of particular interest to the TIP audience because the adequacy of content validity evidence in high-stakes testing is at the core of the claim. Additionally, the question of who is liable when one organization develops a test and another uses it is also a central issue in Gulino. Further, the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on an adverse impact case under Title VII in almost 2 decades. Both cases are important and speak to unanswered questions dating back to the Wards Cove era.
Background Information
The two key cases from the Wards Cove era are Watson v. Fort Worth Bank (1988) and Wards Cove v. Atonio (1989), both Title VII cases. Recall that, during this period of time, courts were wrestling primarily with (a) which selection procedures were covered under an adverse impact theory of discrimination, and (b) exactly what plaintiff and employer burdens were under various circumstances. The question in Watson was whether subjective decision making may be challenged via adverse impact rules. There were three types of subjective decisions at issue (ratings of past performance, interview ratings, and ratings of past experience). There were only eight justices in this case. All eight agreed that subjective decision making is subject to adverse impact rules. Indeed, speaking for all eight justices, Justice O'Connor, referencing Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), stated the following:
[I]f the employer in Griggs had consistently preferred applicants who had a high school diploma and who passed the company's general aptitude test, its selection system could nonetheless have been considered "subjective" if it also included brief interviews with the candidates. So long as an employer refrained from making standardized criteria absolutely determinative, it would remain free to give such tests almost as much weight as it chose without risking a disparate impact challenge. If we announced a rule that allowed employers so easily to insulate themselves from liability under Griggs, disparate impact analysis might effectively be abolished.
However, at the same time, a plurality of four justices (O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia & White) argued that the rules for defending against adverse impact should be relaxed to the same standard as used in disparate treatment cases such as McDonnell-Douglas v. Green (1973). That is, instead of the job-relatedness defense for adverse impact, a burden of persuasion, the O'Connor plurality wanted to reduce the defense to a lighter burden of production, or an articulation (without proof) of a nondiscriminatory reason for the challenged practice. Or as stated by Justice O'Connor:
[W]hen a plaintiff has made out a prima facie case of disparate impact, and when the defendant has met its burden of producing evidence that its employment practices are based on legitimate business reasons, the plaintiff must "show that other tests or selection devices, without a similarly undesirable racial effect, would also serve the employer's legitimate interest in efficient and trustworthy workmanship."
O'Connor's fear was that
In the context of subjective or discretionary employment decisions, the employer will often find it easier than in the case of standardized tests to produce evidence of a "manifest relationship to the employment in question."
In response to the O'Connor plurality, Justice Blackman, speaking for Brennan and Marshall, issued two objections. First, Blackmun agreed with a brief written on behalf American Psychological Association (APA) in which Donald Bersoff (1988), citing both the 1985 Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests and the 1987 SIOP Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures, argued that subjective procedures are equally as amenable to psychometric scrutiny as are objective procedures. Blackmun also agreed that adverse impact was not a homogeneous scenario and that different types of proofs were used for different types of causes of adverse impact. For example, he argued that the defense to adverse impact has varied with:
[T]he type and size of the business in question, as well as the particular jobs for which the selection process is employed. Courts have recognized ....nationwide studies and reports...expert testimony...and psychologist's testimony explaining job-relatedness....[etc.]
For his part, Justice Stevens avoided the argument, concluding that the only question raised in this case (subjective decision making) had been answered.Fast forward one year to Wards Cove. That case had very little in common with Watson. The issue in Wards Cove was cross-job disparities between minorities (Eskimos & Filipinos) overrepresented in unskilled jobs and Whites overrepresented in skilled jobs. In fact, Gutman has argued in several places that Wards Cove should have been a pattern or practice disparate treatment case in the image of International Teamsters v. United States (1977)1. Under pattern or practice rules, the appropriate defense to "stock" statistics (as opposed to "flow" statistics as in Griggs) is the same as in individuous disparate treatment cases such as McDonnell-Douglas v. Green (i.e., the lighter burden of production). Therefore, the burden of production would have been appropriate for Wards Cove had the Supreme Court evaluated it as a pattern or practice case but not as an adverse impact case.
1 See for example On The Legal Front articles written in the January 2003 and January 2004 issues of TIP and Gutman (2005).The rest is, as we say, history. With the arrival of Justice Kennedy, there were now five votes to turn the O'Connor plurality opinion in Watson into case law in Wards Cove. Congress then attempted to overturn Wards Cove (and five other 1989 Supreme Court rulings) in the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1990 (CRRA-90). CRRA-90 was vetoed by President Bush and was nearly overridden (the veto was overridden in the House of Representatives but missed by a single vote in the Senate). The primary source of disagreement in 1990 was the Wards Cove ruling. Disagreements between the Democrats and Republicans on Wards Cove (and the other five cases) were ironed out in the next year, and the result was the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (CRA-91). As it relates to Wards Cove, CRA-91 demands two of the three things initially proposed by the O'Connor plurality in Watson: (a) identification of an employment practice(s) that (b) causes adverse impact. However, it overturned the Wards Cove ruling on the burden of production, deeming that if adverse impact is proven in accordance with the identification and causation principles, the defense must prove that the cause(s) of adverse impact is job related and consistent with business necessity, leaving the plaintiff the burden of proving there are other equally valid practices that produce less or no adverse impact. In other words, the plaintiff and employer burdens were revised to be "balanced."More recently, the Supreme Court evaluated adverse impact in the ADEA in Smith v. City of Jackson (2005), a case discussed in the July 2005 issue of On The Legal Front. Briefly, in the 1980s, adverse impact followed the same rules in ADEA as in Title VII (see for example Geller v. Markham, 1980 & Leftwich v. Harris-Stowe, 1983). However, in Hazen v. Biggens (1993), a disparate treatment case, the Supreme Court ruled that employer decisions may be motivated by 'factors other than age…even if the motivating factor is correlated with age.'" Several circuit courts read Hazen to mean that adverse impact is an invalid claim in the ADEA as a matter of law, including the 5th Circuit in Smith v. City of Jackson (2005). To the surprise of many observers, the Supreme Court ruled that adverse impact is a valid ADEA claim. However, there were two caveats. First, the Supreme Court ruled that Wards Cove applies to ADEA claims because CRA-91 only overturned that ruling with respect to Title VII. Second the ADEA has the Reasonable Factors Other than Age (RFOA) statutory defense, which is a substantially lighter burden of persuasion than the job relatedness and business necessity defenses under Title VII. Therefore, as discussed in the April 2005 issue of TIP, the following summary of the differences between Title VII and the ADEA was provided:
Table 1._________________________________________________________________________ Griggs-Albemarle (Title VII) _________________________________________________________________________Phase 1 Statistical evidence of an identified employment practice that disproportionately excludes protected group members Phase 2 Proof that the challenged practice is job related and consistent with business necessity Phase 3 Proof there is an equally valid, job-related practice with less or no adverse impact ________________________________________________________________________ Smith v. City of Jackson (ADEA)________________________________________________________________________Phase 1 Statistical evidence of an identified employment practice that disproportionately excludes protected group members Phase 2 Proof that the challenged practice is supported by a Reasonable Factor Other Than Age (RFOA) Phase 3 Proof that the factor cited is unreasonable or not the true reason for the employment practice ________________________________________________________________________
As depicted in Table 1, adverse impact follows the same prima facie (Phase 1) rules in both Title VII and the ADEA. However, unlike Title VII, which demands proof of job relatedness and consistency with business necessity (Phase 2) forcing the plaintiff to prove there is an equally valid practice with less or no adverse impact (Phase 3)2, the ADEA permits the RFOA defense (Phase 2) forcing the plaintiff to prove that the reasonable factors advanced are not reasonable (Phase 3). The Meacham case represents an application of the Smith burden to different facts of an involuntary reduction in force (IRIF) case.
2 The reader is directed to opposing views on alternatives to adverse impact written by Jim Sharf and Jim Ouutz in the October 2007 issue of TIP.
The Meacham Case
Meacham was tried by the Northern District of New York in 2002. The plaintiffs won at trial, and the 2nd Circuit upheld the district court ruling in 2004 (Meacham I). However, the Supreme Court vacated the ruling in light of Smith v. City of Jackson and the 5th Circuit, in a 2 to 1 ruling, overturned the district court ruling in its more recent (2006) review (Meacham II). There are three interesting aspects of this case.First, the 2nd Circuit traditionally used Wards Cove principles to decide adverse impact in ADEA cases even after CRA-91. Meacham involved an IRIF combined with other procedures, most notably a voluntary separation plan (VSP) for individuals with 20 years or more of service and who lacked critical skills. In the IRIF component, 98% of the laid off employees were over age 40. KAPL articulated that the employees laid off were among the lowest rated on the key variables of criticality of skills and flexibility for retraining. Consequently, the plaintiffs proved adverse impact (Phase 1), and the defendants carried their burden of production (Phase 2). However, in Phase 3, the plaintiffs proved to the satisfaction of a jury that there were alternatives that were as suitable, but with less adverse impact, including a hiring freeze and an extension of the VSP to employees with less than 20 years of service. Thus, the plaintiffs won on a strict interpretation based on Wards Cove rules at the district court level and in Meacham I. The second interesting aspect of this case relates to the Supreme Court's ruling in Smith that Wards Cove rules apply to ADEA whereas, in reality, they do not. As noted above, under Wards Cove rules, after the defendant carries its burden of production the plaintiff may still prevail by proving there are alternative suitable practices with less or no adverse impact. This is not an option when the RFOA defense is used. For example, in Smith, Justice Stevens ruled:
While there may have been other reasonable ways for the City to achieve its goals, the one selected was not unreasonable. Unlike the business necessity test, which asks whether there are other ways for the employer to achieve its goals that do not result in a disparate impact on a protected class, the reasonableness inquiry includes no such requirement.
In other words, if the defendant invokes RFOA, the plaintiff can prevail only if it can be proven that the reasonable factors offered are unreasonable (see for example EEOC v. Allstate [2006], where the defense articulated five reasonable factors and each was successfully countered as unreasonable by the plaintiffs). In Meacham II, the 2nd Circuit ruled that KAPL's use of criticality and flexibility for the IRIF was reasonable and that the plaintiffs could not prove otherwise.The third interesting aspect of this case relates to the RFOA defense itself. Generally, statutory defenses in all statutes are affirmative. In other words, the defendant must carry a heavier burden of persuasion, not production. For example, Part 1625.7(e) of the EEOC ADEA regulations states:
When the exception of "a reasonable factor other than age'' is raised against an individual claim of discriminatory treatment, the employer bears the burden of showing that the "reasonable factor other than age'' exists factually.
However, in Meacham II, the 2nd Circuit ruled that the burden in the RFOA is only productive and not a heavier persuasive burden. Accordingly:
Wards Cove explained that the plaintiff bears the burden of persuasion to defeat the employer's "business necessity" justification because the plaintiff bears the ultimate burden under Title VII to "prove that it was 'because of [his] race, color,' etc., that he was denied a desired employment opportunity." The analogous § 4(a) of the ADEA…is identical to that of Title VII…City of Jackson thus applies the reasoning and analysis of Wards Cove to disparate-impact claims under the ADEA, with the effect that an employer defeats a plaintiff's prima facie case by producing a legitimate business justification, unless the plaintiff is able to discharge the ultimate burden of persuading the factfinder that the employer's justification is unreasonable. Any other interpretation would compromise the holding in Wards Cove that the employer is not to bear the ultimate burden of persuasion with respect to the "legitimacy" of its business justification.
The same conclusion was drawn by the Eastern District of Missouri in EEOC v. Allstate (2006) and by the 10th Circuit in Pippin v. Burlington Resources (2006).In the July 2005 issue of TIP, it was suggested that "there is no obvious reason to resurrect Wards Cove if the sole objective is to support the RFOA defense. RFOA stands alone as a Congressionally mandated statutory defense." Meacham II illustrates this point. For example, as noted by the dissenting judge in this case (Pooler):
I respectfully dissent because I do not agree that Smith v. City of Jackson, 544 U.S. 228, 125 S. Ct. 1536, 161 L. Ed. 2d 410 (2005) requires vacatur of the district court judgment. The concerns animating my disagreement with the majority are (1) the majority improperly conflates the analysis of proof of a reasonable factor other than age ("RFOA") with the legitimate business justification analysis as it is used in a disparate impact analysis; (2) the majority errs by assigning to plaintiffs the burden of proving that a RFOA does not exist; and (3) the majority improperly reaches the asserted RFOA error because, although defendants pleaded an affirmative RFOA defense, they did not seek a charge or a verdict sheet question on that defense, thus requiring that we find fundamental error, which does not exist, to reach the claimed error.
In other words, Judge Pooler argued that by incorporating the RFOA statutory defense in Smith, the Supreme Court did not imply that the burden of defense for RFOA is productive. In our opinion, had the Supreme Court simply invoked the RFOA defense to adverse impact without reference to Wards Cove, lower courts would support the EEOC's interpretation of the RFOA defense that it must be proven "factually." That is to say, the heavier burden was expected to be the status quo.
The Gulino Case
Gulino involved two potential "employers," the New York State Education Department (SED) and the New York City Board of Education (BOE), and two tests, the Core Battery and the LAST (Liberal Arts and Sciences Test). Ultimately, the BOE was deemed the employer. More importantly, both the Core Battery and the LAST produced adverse impact, but the Core Battery was properly validated using appropriate content validation procedures, whereas the LAST was not. Despite these facts, the district court judge found that both tests were job related and consistent with business necessity and, in the case of the LAST, that the plaintiffs failed to offer a "cost effective, practical alternative to the certification tests." (Gulino v. Board of Education, 2003). The 2nd Circuit ruled that the BOE was the appropriate employer and overturned the district court's ruling that the LAST was job related and consistent with business necessity. The LAST covers five knowledge areas. Four of these areas are tested with multiple choice questions (science and math, historical and social science awareness, artistic expression and the humanities, and basic communication skills), and the fifth area is an essay test of written analysis and expression. Passing requires answering correctly two thirds of the multiple choice question and scoring at least 3 out of 5 on the essay test. The test is compensatory so that poor performance on one component can be overcome with good performance on another component. The passing rates were roughly 90–95% for Whites as compared to 50–60% for Blacks and 45–55% for Hispanics.The most startling aspect of the district court ruling was that the judge gave reason after reason why the validation process by NES (National Evaluation Systems), the test maker, did not meet professional standards. She stated that "defendants have not demonstrated that the LAST was properly validated according to professional guidelines and standards." She pointed to failure to satisfy criteria established for content validity in the Uniform Guidelines. Interestingly, she also cited several instances in which the APA Standards were violated, including Standard 3.7 (documentation procedures used to develop, review, and try out items), Standard 3.8 (samples representative of intended population), and Standard 7.3 (failure to conduct differential item analysis). She stated that "efforts to obtain sufficient technical information for the committee to evaluate the tests similar to what the committee received from ETS were unsuccessful for NES tests. As a result,…the committee can make no statements about their soundness or technical quality." And she also stated that there is "insufficient documentation upon which to make a determination regarding the validity of the LAST for the uses to which it was put by defendants." In other words, the judge documented why the LAST should have failed the test for job relatedness and consistency with business necessity. Nevertheless, she interpreted the Supreme Court's ruling in Watson as having lowered the bar for test validation, and thus, a lack of validity evidence did not equate to inadequate validity evidence, even in the case of a standardized test. Accordingly:
Unhappily for plaintiffs, however, the Supreme Court lowered the bar for defendants in disparate impact suits. In Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust, 487 U.S. 977, 108 S. Ct. 2777, 101 L. Ed. 2d 827 (1988), the Court explained: Our cases make it clear that employers are not required, even when defending standardized or objective tests, to introduce formal "validation studies" showing that particular criteria predict actual on-the-job performance. In [New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer, 440 U.S. 568, 99 S. Ct. 1355, 59 L. Ed. 2d 587 (1979)], for example, the Court considered it obvious that legitimate employment goals of safety and efficiency permitted the exclusion of methadone users from employment with the New York City Transit Authority; the Court indicated that the manifest relationship test was satisfied even with respect to non-safety-sensitive jobs because those legitimate goals were significantly served by the exclusionary rule at issue in that case even though the rule was not required by those goals.
The judge then concluded that the "LAST is manifestly related to the legitimate educational goals enunciated by SED."For its part, the 2nd Circuit gave numerous reasons why the LAST was not job related. For present purposes, two are worth nothing. First, the court noted that there was nothing in the Watson ruling that lowered the bar for test validation. Rather, the passage from Watson relied upon by the district court judge was part of a plurality ruling, and the reference to New York City v. Beazer (1979) was a subset of "outlier" cases in which validation is not necessary because it was "obvious" that an exclusionary rule prohibiting methadone users from becoming transit authority police officers was a valid requirement. Thus, the question became whether an exclusionary rule was different from a standardized test. Or in the words of the court:
[I]t is not clear that the quoted portion of the Watson opinion purported to overrule earlier Supreme Court cases that require employers to conduct validation studies that are at least consistent with the EEOC Guidelines. We think that Watson as a whole is more reasonably read as simply pointing out that some tests measure abilities that are abstract, yet so clearly consistent with legitimate business needs, that formal validation may be either functionally impossible or inadequate as a [*386] measure of the test's job relatedness. The examples from Beazer discussed in the quoted passage illustrates a subset of disparate impact cases in which the job relatedness of an employment practice is so patent that formal validation is unnecessary. ….Second, courts should not rely on this portion of Watson [**71] because that language comes from a section of the Watson opinion that was joined by only four of the eight participating justices.
Ironically, if anything, the reference to Beazer supports the Blackmun plurality opinion in Watson that there was no need to alter the rules for adverse impact claims because different methods for determining job relatedness had already been established in prior Supreme Court and lower court cases.Second, the court reiterated it's five-part test for content validity initially established in Guardians v. Civil Service (1980). Accordingly:
(1) [T]he test-makers must have conducted a suitable job analysis[;] (2) they must have used reasonable competence in constructing the test itself[;] (3) the content of the test must be related to the content of the job …[;] (4) the content of the test must be representative of the content of the job[; and] [there must]be (5) a scoring system that usefully selects from among the applicants [*385] those who can better perform the job.
Obviously, based on the district court judge's own references to the reasons why the LAST was not properly validated, the 2nd Circuit concluded that the LAST failed the Guardians test and is not job related and consistent with business necessity.
It is not surprising to us that the Supreme Court would choose to review Meacham II, particularly after the Smith ruling. Frankly, the Supreme Court has run this race before. Specifically, in Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio v. Betts (1989), the Supreme Court itself placed a burden of production on the BFBP (bona fide benefit plan) statutory ADEA defense ruling that, if invoked by the defense, initiates the plaintiff's burden to prove that the benefit plan is "subterfuge to evade the purposes of the Act." Congress subsequently passed the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act of 1990 that, among other things, overturned the Betts ruling, thereby placing the burden of proof of BFBP on the defendant. We suspect the Supreme Court is likely to do the same thing in relation to Meacham II.On the other hand, the reasons for reviewing Gulino (if in fact that happens), is somewhat opaque. There are no obvious disagreements among circuit courts on the proper standards for conducting a content validity study. Certainly, the five-part rule established by the 2nd Circuit in Guardians is consistent with both the Uniform Guidelines and generally accepted principles in our profession. There is, however, one possibility relating to the 2nd Circuit's opinion in Gulino that is worrisome. Specifically, the court wrote:
[T]his Circuit remains bound by the validation requirements expressed in earlier Supreme Court precedent, namely, Albemarle Paper and Griggs, and as interpreted by Guardians. Further bolstering that conclusion is the fact that this case is much more factually analogous to Albemarle Paper and Griggs than to Watson. Albemarle Paper, Griggs, and Guardians addressed the use of standardized tests in making employment decisions. Watson, on the other hand, addressed the applicability of Title VII to subjective employment practices, such as evaluations by superiors, in making employment decisions. The testing-related cases delineate the appropriate standard for assessing job relatedness.
This quote could be interpreted to mean that cases such as Griggs v. Duke Power (1971) and Albemarle v. Moody (1975), which involved standardized tests, should be validated in one fashion, whereas cases such as Watson, which involved subjective ratings of past performance, interview ratings, and ratings of past experience, should be validated differently. This is just a guess on our part, and one we hope is wrong. The opinion of the 1988 Bersoff brief makes sense, and in accordance with the SIOP Principles, there is no reason to believe there are any differences in the manner in which subjective and objective forms of assessment are amenable to psychometric scrutiny.The fact that the Court asked for the solicitor general to weigh in suggests that Gulino will be added to the docket eventually. Perhaps the less interesting issue in Gulino concerning who the "employer is" could be of interest to the Court in spite of the fact that this issue hasn't stirred controversy for a long time. Alternatively, Gulino could be of interest to the Court because of the educational context surrounding the case, particularly given that educational reform and teacher certification have recently resurfaced as issues of national concern. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), thousands of teachers have been demoted from their jobs as a result of the National Teachers Exam (NTE). Poor performance on the NTE may also result in the loss of teaching licenses, seniority, retention rights, tenured teaching positions, and even salary reductions. Perhaps the tests under review and the jobs of interest in Gulino are the real focus of the Court and not necessarily anything controversial about adverse impact theory under Title VII.
Bersoff, D. N. (1988). In the Supreme Court of the United States: Clara Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust. American Psychologist, 43, 1019–1028.Gutman A. (2005). Adverse impact: Judicial, regulatory, and statutory authority. In F. J. Landy (Ed.) Employment Discrimination Litigation: Behavioral, Quantitative, and Legal Persepctives (pp. 20–46). San Francisco, CA: PfeifferOuutz, J. L. (2007). Legal adverse alternatives: Making progress and avoiding red herrings. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 45(2), 23–27.Sharf, J. C. (2007). Slippery slope of "alternatives: Altering the topography of employment testing? The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 45(2), 13–19.
Cases Cited
Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975) 422 US 405.EEOC v. Allstate (ED Missouri 2006) 458 F. Supp. 2d 980.Geller v. Markham (CA2 1980) 635 F.2d 1027.Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) 401 US 424.Guardians v. Civil Service Commission (CA2 1980) 630 F.2d 79.Gulino v. Board of Education (SDNY 2003) U.S. Dist. Lexis 27325.Gulino v. State Education Department (CA2 2006) 461 F.3d 134.Hazen v. Biggens (1993) 507 US 604.International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977) 431 US 324.Leftwich v. Harris-Stowe State College (CA8 1983) 702 F.2d 686.McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green (1973) 411 US 792.Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (CA2 2004) 381 F.3d 56.Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (CA2 2006) 461 F.3d 134.New York City v. Beazer (1979) 440 US 568.Pippin v. Burlington Resources Oil & Gas (CA10 2006) 440 F.3d 1186.Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio v. Betts (1989) 492 US 158. Smith v. City of Jackson (2005) 544 US 228.Wards Cove Packing Company v. Atonio (1989) 490 US 642.Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust 487 US 977 (1988).


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Women and Children as the Focus for Control of Schistosomiasis Infections in the Irrigations Area of Burkina Faso
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The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of schistosomasis infections in women and children, their daily activites that encumber contact with water and their knowledge and attitudes towards the prevention of schistosomiasis.
The hypothesis that will be explored is that women and children spent more time with agricultural and household activities which bring them in contact with water and therefore give them an increased risk of being infected by schistosoma. Prevention and control of schistosomiasis has to be focusing on women and children.
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Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Primary Purpose: Screening Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional Time Perspective: Retrospective/Prospective |
Official Title: | Women and Childres at the Focal Point for the Schistosomiasis Control and Sustainability and Effectiveness in the Hydro Agricultural Zone of Sourou, Burkina Faso |
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Study Start Date: | December 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | February 2007 |
The study will be carried out in and irrigation area of Burkina Faso where people relay on water. The study applies several methodes;
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- Observations: At each village sites at the irrigation canals where people meet and have their activities observations of the kind and the duration of watercontact will be observed.
- Focus group interview: In each village 5 focus group interviews will be conducted with 6 to 12 participants in each group
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- Questionnaire: a total of 360 questionnairs will be distributed to participants in the parasitological survey, the focus group interviews and to participants who did not participate in any of the above mentioned.
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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Senior |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
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Women and children from three villages
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Principal Investigator: | Jean N Poda, Ph.d.,M.Sc. | Institute of Health Sciences Research, Burkina Faso |
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Schistosomiasis Trematode Infections Helminthiasis Parasitic Diseases |
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For our Valentine's Day dinner, Official Co-Writer/Fiancee of DCWD Texas and I headed to one of the few places that would let us have a 10pm reservation: Central Michel Richard.
The Vibe
Central's dining room is the picture of class and brightness. There's the marble bar which runs alongside the restaurant's entire right side braced by some small bar tables and square leather-topped bar stools. On the other side of a small divider is the main dining area, a row of four-tops and some lone two-tops sandwiched between two aisles of half booths on either side. Everything, from the furniture to the walls is awash in a light birch finish accented by beige, which has the effect of brightening up the room, even at this late juncture. Giant tube like light fixtures in beige and soft crimson are above, while a peek of the kitchen can be seen through some wall length wine shelving. The key word here is clean: everything is easy on the eyes, straight-lined and functional.
The Food
For my main course, I had the trout almondine plated atop a bed of salsify and sunchokes. I supposed it doesn't get more French classic than something like this, but it was executed perfectly. Beware that they're not kidding on the almondine part: there probably were just as much almonds as trout, and at points the nut slivers overtook the dish itself. In point of fact, the most enjoyable part of this dish was the salsify/sunchoke combo, which brought a subtle brightness to everything.
For all of the traditional French flavors we had eaten before this, Texas went instead with her secret indulgence: fried chicken with mashed potato. Central's fried chicken is well-known, mostly for the fact that you can have it in a KFC-style bucket to go, but also because of its taste. A little bit crispy, a little bit high class, and a lot of classic French flavors that blend the whole thing together.
For dessert, we split Michel's chocolate bar, a homemade version of a Kit Kat. Texas and I fall on two very different ends of the chocolate spectrum: I like mine light and subtle, she likes hers heavy and dark. This was more on my end, with bits of wafer providing some nice crunch to go along with some familiar sweetness.
The Verdict
Classic French, good fun.
Food Rating: **** (out of 5)
Date Rating: 3.5 Hearts (out of 5)
Dress Code: Business
Bar Rating: Classy Crowd
Vibe: Energetic
Cost: $$$$ (out of 5) ($75-$100 for two)
Pairing: Stop by the Old Post Office before it turns into a Trump Hotel, and catch a view of the city from th old clock tower.


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Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:43:53 GMT |
Christian Haul wrote: > is it just me or are the rest of the team also receiving bogus emails > pretending to be from another committer bearing sensible cocoon > subject lines? (Bless terminal based mail user agents!) > > Does Apache sport a public key infrastructure? > > Chris. > > -- > C h r i s t i a n H a u l > email@example.com > fingerprint: 99B0 1D9D 7919 644A 4837 7D73 FEF9 6856 335A 9E08 I did receive something strange (text spam, no attachments), pretending to originate from the xml-commons-cvs listserver. (All cocoon committers are also committers of xml-commons by default.) I forwarded the email, with full headers, to the apmail alias. Obviously this is a worrying trend. I was already worrying about the fast increasing general email spam. We are more vulnerable because all opensource participants get their email address plastered across the Internet for free. Harvesting the legitimate and reliable IDs would be easy, i expect. (Cocoon probably makes it easier = shot-in-foot.) Ovidiu, your comment about not being able to do useful work has been at the back of my mind. I dread the day when the flood of email spam is too great. Now the origin is also in doubt. Email has been an excellent tool, were would we be without it. Christian, what are you suggesting with your PKI enquiry above. --David Crossley --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, email: firstname.lastname@example.com | |
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Organizers want to set the Guinness world record for the biggest crowd singing a national anthem simultaneously on Kiev's Independence Square, or Maidan, the site of anti-government demonstrations since Nov. 21.
The current record is held by the Indian company Sahara India Pariwar, which had 121,653 uniform-clad people sing the country's anthem on May 6.
"Let's celebrate the new year at Maidan, let's celebrate together," Oles Doniy, an opposition lawmaker in charge said in a televised news conference yesterday.
"It will be very interesting and we will have a lot of fun."
Protesters have occupied the square since President Viktor Yanukovych backed out of a trade deal with the European Union in favor of a $15 billion bailout and a gas-price cut from Russia.
As authorities ignore demands for snap elections and the government's dismissal, the opposition aims to keep a protest camp going before a presidential vote in March 2015.
The number of demonstrators has been dwindling since a police crackdown led half a million people to the square early this month.
Rallies every Sunday have attracted fewer people closer to the holiday season that lasts through Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7.
Christmas Play Performances are set to start at 9:30 p.m. today with a traditional Christmas play to be performed by politicians, activists, journalists and musicians.
The New Year celebration will include non-alcoholic champagne and food.
Ruslana, the Ukrainian singer who won the Eurovision song contest in 2004 and spent most nights leading rallies from the stage on Independence Square since November, will be among performers.
She will also orchestrate the national anthem performance, for which Guinness World Records representatives have been invited.
Almost 12,000 policemen will secure public order on New Year's Eve across Ukraine, according to a statement on the government's website.
Police in Kiev will work "on higher alert" the Interior Ministry said.
Ukraine's Hromadske TV will broadcast an alternative to Yanukovych's annual televised address, showing recorded statements aimed at the president from the people of Ukraine five minutes to midnight.
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MEET! Sat Jan 24 7:00PM - Wimpy's Scarbrough
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It's been a while since an organized meet, thought I'd bring everybody together again. Too many sporadic gatherings, let's all make it to this one.
Place: Wimpy's Scarborugh Time: 7:00PM (we'll be eating by 7:15!) Location: 65 Rylander Blvd. Agenda: Eat first (that's for you Randy), then head out for a little drive. Directions: From the East: 401 West to Port Union. Turn left at lights. 2nd lights will be Rylander, turn right. Turn left into first driveway, building all the way on the left. From the West: 401 East to Port Union. Turn left at lights. 1st light will be Rylander, turn left. Turn left into first driveway, building all the way on the left. This is same place we had 2 meets at (1 successful) for those who came. Hope to see a good turnout! *th-up* |
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Im in - not 100% yet
I should make an appearence....
if my car is fixed I'm in 100%, missed a few meets
Anybody from the westend feel like a cruz out there?
Typical meet spot for West-enders would be KK on Mavis. You would have to leave at 6:30 SHARP to make it on time. Keep it legal! *no-no*
Jon, wanna handle that group? |
alright I'm out 100%, I need to get my engine rebuilt or get a engine, unless someone can do it in a week.
I'm there in the toyota. |
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E46_lover TrEvOrLiCioS bmwm5lover audiophilia koncise SpudBoy Nice group! *th-up* The after-dinner festivities are being planned, details to be announced at Wimpy's. ;) |
:D sounds good...looks like i can handle the west enders Jay ;)
Arrrgh, gotta work that night. :( Don't forget to look for a bright location if you're gonna snap pics. Drive safely! *wave*
i might meet up with u guys after ur done eating..
I'll have to get back to ya.
Eitherway I'll be Toyota'ng too or Hemi... Later burnhard22;) |
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Dairy News
It was good advice then, and it still rings true. An adventure in cleaning out old file cabinets yields record keeping advice that has stood the test of time.
Fall is almost here and with that will come corn silage harvest. One common side effect of silage making is silage effluent. No matter our best efforts to harvest at the correct moisture and in a timely fashion, it happens. If you have a silo, upright or horizontal, you have some amount of silage effluent.
Synchronization protocols have become a great tool for many breeding programs, but most would probably abandon them in a heartbeat if there was another effective way to consistently predict ovulation and pinpoint the perfect time to breed cows. Activity monitors may provide a solution.
Several microbiological parameters are used to screen for the overall quality of milk. These analyses are associated with milk quality. They also can provide direction for trouble-shooting sanitation and procedural issues on the farm.
As tie stall dairy producers think about herd expansion they often consider converting their existing building into a milking center. In many cases this is a reasonable idea. However, 'low-cost' should not be interpreted as 'cheap.'
Scientists from around the globe presented the results of their most recent research at the joint annual meeting of the American Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science last month in Kansas City, Missouri. This article highlights some of the latest findings related to feeding and managing dairy calves.
The goal of monitoring dry matter intake is getting to know your cows. This is extremely important for understanding what is normal and what is abnormal for the operation. It can also help explain how the cows may be responding to forage quality changes, ration changes, or labor's implementation of the feeding program.
What is the difference between a barn built in 2014 and one built in 2002? It is likely there are multiple opportunities to upgrade an older barn and improve cow comfort.
Inspections are an inevitable part of the routine on most dairy farms.
Water makes up 87% of the milk given by a cow, and drinking water satisfies 80 to 90% of a cow's total water needs. Consider how and when cows drink to create a watering system that ensures every cow gets as much water as she will drink.
A 2013 study suggested that US EPA estimates of methane production underestimated true emissions. Penn State scientists collaborated with other experts to examine that claim. Using a method of calculating emissions based on feed consumption, these researchers concluded that the EPA estimates are accurate.
Most of the time when we think about sorting and dairy cows, we focus on the negative consequences of cows selectively eating the finer particles in a diet. But there is growing evidence that cows facing an acidosis challenge will select feeds with high ruminal buffering capacity if given the opportunity.
When it comes to risk management it seems like things are never simple. The new approach in the farm bill appears complicated. However, farms that have developed cash flow plans on their own or with the Extension Dairy Team, already have the tools available to implement the program effectively.
Designed, installed, and operated properly, tunnel ventilation systems can play a major role in keeping cows comfortable and productive during hot weather. Providing enough fan capacity is important, but properly sized inlets – located to supply uniform distribution throughout the animal space – are essential to provide a more comfortable space for the cows.
Successful culling strategies are based on economics and utilize accurate production data. This article discusses metrics that incorporate information from a current test day and for the current lactation.
As group housing systems for calves have gained popularity in recent years, interest in acidified milk systems has also been renewed. This article describes reasons for acidifying milk or milk replacer and examines research on acidified milk feeding systems.
Consistency is one of the biggest goals when feeding calves. Whatever the liquid feed (milk or milk replacer), the temperature, total solids percentage, and nutrient level should be reasonably consistent from feeding to feeding. Large changes in any of these parameters can lead to unwillingness of calves to drink or scours in calves that do drink.
Is the dairy industry ready to move from the past 75 years of artificial insemination (AI) as the primary way of advancing genetic progress, to using genomics, ovum pick-up (OPU), and in vitro fertilization (IVF) as another combination of technologies that could be used routinely to help take the dairy industry to the "next level" of genetic progress?
Prevention of mastitis requires reducing exposure to mastitis pathogens and enhancing the ability of the heifers' immune system to respond.
The variety of production systems make it difficult for any one farm to truly know the cost to feed its herd when basing prices solely on the prevailing market. Though analysts do a reasonable job approximating the market costs for feedstuffs like corn silage and alfalfa haylage, actual producer costs can vary greatly within the same state. For this reason, it pays to know the true costs to produce the crops fed on the dairy farm.


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Meow had a very Merry Christmas Issue....an envelope containing not just our super December edition with fantastically festive illustrations, an interview, recipe and diy cut out to name a few of the treats inside there was also a free gift made by one of the editorial team. All for £1! We had some great submissions so thanks as always, here are a few of them:
Rebecca French
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ALSO: Submissions are now needed for SKETCHBOOKS issue. We want your best pages, either mark the page and put in the Meow drawer in illustration studion 80/81 or email good quality images (200dpi) to the meow email address. Remember we print grayscale, a5.....
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text: Assassin's Creed: Revelations's U.S. Special Edition Keeps Costs Low, Omits EncyclopediaStephen Totilo6/21/11 12:00pmFiled to: If it's a 2011 video game, it has a pre-order bonusAssassin's Creed RevelationsPS3Xbox 360PCUbisoft113EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Last week, we ran through the details of the Animus Edition of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, an expensive GameStop-exclusive version of the game that runs 100 Euros and gets players a bunch of things, including a bonus Vlad the Impaler mission and an actual Assassin's Creed encyclopedia. We wondered if Americans will get the same thing. A representative for the game's publisher, Ubisoft, dropped me an e-mail to confirm that they won't. Advertisement Advertisement Some Americans will get a variation of the Animus Edition that works as follows. If you pre-order the game at GameStop in America, for no extra cost, you'll get the Vlad the Impaler mission, the same ammo capacity upgrades offered in the Animus edition and one exclusive multiplayer character (Ubisoft isn't specifying which or even saying if its either the Crusader or Ottoman Jester, the two offered in the Animus Edition.) American pre-order folks will also get a short animated film, presumably the same one that's in the Animus edition, but they won't get the Encyclopedia. They will, however, get a Revelations soundtrack.This American offering, which is only for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 pre-orders at GameStop, is called the "Signature Edition."What if you want that encyclopedia and live in these United States? You can, at least, order it directly from Ubisoft from the company's online shop. Sponsored As mentioned here previously, if you don't spring for the bonus content at launch or through this specific retailer, you can rest assured that Ubisoft will eventually sell the bonus mission and any other DLC content online, as they have for previous Assassin's Creed add-ons.For more on Assassin's Creed: Revelations read our previews of the game's single-player and multiplayer modes. Reply113 repliesLeave a reply


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Too cute Jodie!
Gorgeous !!! (with and without clothes)
He's adorable, right down to that pink tail. :o)
ha ha love him,mousey the streaker.xx
Adorable . . . . . And I'm stalking for the pattern ;)
I love his little tail - wow I nearly broke into baby talk LOL
well if I had dungarees as nice as that, I wouldn't want to get them wet either!
I amuse myself by imagining you getting captured on a CCTV camera doing one of these photo shoots and the security staff watching them back.
So so cute
Cute absolutely sums it up! Thanks for making me laugh this morning! ;-D
So adorable. Well done.
Sweet as can be -- from head to tail! No belly button?
hey, you forgot to make him a towel!
Sweetie pie!
Oh for crying out loud
Love the photo story! The catch line was indeed catching.
You're too funny! I clicked right over when I saw nudity would be involved LOL!
Ha ha! This is just too cute. Who doesn't love a live nude mouse?
just adorable
So....whilst he took his little dip.....who took the pants? Could it be his friend?....embarrassingly his girlfriend?.....and of course she would want to join him....I can see her adorable wee dress now....(HINT) . Weensy towels are a great idea.....too.
is big sister Darla took his wet pants home for him.
I want (need) to meet Darla....:)
That is just the cutest little thing! :) Adorable.
Bahahaha! Too cute! Thank you for making me laugh. I totally needed that. I hope this is a new pattern because it is ADORABLE.
This could be the only mouse in existence that I actually love.
Love seeing all your little peoples! And HUGE congrats on the fair event, woohoo!!! Jumping for joy for you! and biting my nails...
Thank you so so much, Jodie! You make me smile whenever I stop by here. Love your kind of humor and all the adorable, little charming population, you bring into the world!
love that little guy! he needs his paper hat! of course, he would take it off before jumping into the water. ;p
So crazy cute! Nobody does it better....
too cute Jodie. I am so glad he is quick dry felt. :P
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Heath, J and Kerstiens, Gerhard (1997) Effects of elevated CO2 on leaf gas exchange in beech and oak at two levels of nutrient supply: Consequences for sensitivity to drought in beech. Plant, Cell and Environment, 20 (1). pp. 57-67. ISSN 0140-7791
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Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L,) were grown from seed for two whole seasons at two CO, concentrations (ambient and ambient + 250 mu mol mol(-1)) with two levels of soil nutrient supply, Measurements of net leaf photosynthetic rate (A) and stomatal conductance (g(s)) of well-watered plants were taken over both seasons; a drought treatment was applied in the middle of the second growing season to a separate sample of beech drawn from the same population, The net leaf photosynthetic rate of well-watered plants was stimulated in elevated CO2 by an average of 75% in beech and 33% in oak; the effect continued through both growing seasons at both nutrient levels, There were no interactive effects of CO2 concentration and nutrient level on A or g(s) in beech or oak, Stomatal conductance was reduced in elevated CO2 by an average of 34% in oak, but in beech there were no significant reductions in g(s) except under cloudy conditions (-22% in elevated CO2), During drought, there was no effect of CO2 concentration on g(s) in beech grown with high nutrients, but for beech grown with low nutrients, g(s) was significantly higher in elevated CO2, causing more rapid soil drying, With high nutrient supply, soil drying was more rapid at elevated CO2 due to increased leaf area, It appears that beech may substantially increase whole-plant water consumption in elevated CO2, especially under conditions of high temperature and irradiance when damage due to high evaporative demand is most likely to occur, thereby putting itself at risk during periods of drought.
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Journal or Publication Title: | Plant, Cell and Environment |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fagus sylvatica ; Quercus robur ; Fagaceae ; beech ; pedunculate oak ; climate change ; carbon partitioning ; gas exchange ; stomata ; water ; WATER-USE EFFICIENCY ; FAGUS-SYLVATICA L ; ATMOSPHERIC CO2 ; CARBON-DIOXIDE ; PLANTS ; SEEDLINGS ; RESPONSES ; GROWTH ; FOREST ; PHOTOSYNTHESIS |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Indianapolis Colts got away with a sluggish start.
It certainly helped that they were playing one of the worst teams in the league.
Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes, Trent Richardson ran for a score and the Colts became the latest to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars by double digits, 37-3 Sunday.
The Colts (3-1) were a little sloppy in the first half — Luck threw interceptions on his first two drives and missed several open receivers — but it was hardly enough to made a difference against the Jaguars (0-4).
"It wasn't an ideal start," Luck said. "It was more of a terrible start to the game offensively for us. … We sort of woke up in the second half. Those two scoring drives were big for us. That is what we needed."
Indianapolis led 20-3 at halftime — Jacksonville has been outscored 75-8 in the first half this season — and made it a laugher with consecutive touchdown drives in the third quarter.
Luck found Coby Fleener for a 31-yard score, a play in which even Fleener was surprised he was so wide open, and then connected with Reggie Wayne in the back of the end zone from 5 yards.
That made it 34-3 and sent many of the Jaguars faithful heading to the exits.
The Colts outgained the Jaguars 363-70 at that point.
Luck completed 22 of 36 passes for 260 yards, with two TDs and an interception. His other pick was negated by an offside penalty.
"The sky is the limit," Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. "Listening to him and talking to him, he did get off to a slow start, but he is an even-keeled guy. … He is one of those guys who can put things behind him and move on. Talent combined with that kind of mindset, the sky is the limit."
Wayne finished with five catches for 100 yards. Richardson ran 20 times for 60 yards. Fleener caught five passes for 77 yards.
Defensively, Robert Mathis had three sacks and cornerback Vontae Davis intercepted a pass and tipped another one that teammate Darius Butler caught and returned 41 yards for a score and a 10-3 lead.
"We don't have enough (game balls) to go around anymore," Pagano said. "They have to order some. … We can certainly give one to everyone on defense. Three points, the yardage and everything we talked about, just outstanding."
Nothing was good for the home team.
Blaine Gabbert, who missed the past two games because of a hand injury, completed 17 of 32 passes for 179 yards, with three interceptions. All of them bounced off receivers' hands.
"Too much inconsistency," Gabbert said. "We killed ourselves on some drives."
Maurice Jones-Drew ran 13 times for 23 yards — against the team he has his most career yards against.
"It's the Colts," guard Uche Nwaneri said. "That's how I look at it. They can't stop us from running the ball; that's how I feel every time we play them. I don't care who they have at quarterback. I don't care who they got on defense. It's the Colts.
"For us to come out and not be able to run the ball on the Colts, it's mind-boggling. … It's a lot easier for a defense when they don't have to defend the run so much."
The Jaguars looked as pitiful as they have all season.
Cecil Shorts III bobbled two passes that wound up as interceptions for Gabbert.
Tight end Marcedes Lewis made his season debut, but ended up back in street clothes after just a few plays. Lewis re-injured his left calf, which kept him sidelined most of the preseason and the first three games.
Defensive end Jason Babin was flagged three times, including once for a late hit on Luck. His offside penalty negated an interception in the first quarter.
"I play aggressive and sometimes it bites me in the (rear)," Babin said. "The offside stuff, I've got to own that. I let my frustrations and wanting to make a play real bad overtake my fundamentals. I can't do that to our team."
And just when things seemed as if they couldn't get any worse for Jacksonville, an apparent fumble recovery was overturned because of an inadvertent whistle. The play was deemed a do-over.
The Jaguars would like to get one of those for the entire season. Jacksonville is 0-4 for the third time in franchise history. The team has never started 0-5.
And the questions about free agent quarterback Tim Tebow continue. A plane flew over the stadium carrying a banner that read "Tebow, why not?"
The Jaguars have lost 12 of their past 19 games by double digits — 11 of those by 16 or more points.
Notes: Colts DE Robert Mathis had three sacks, leaving him one shy of becoming the 30th player in NFL history with 100 career sacks. … Colts DE Bjoern Werner left the game with a sprained foot and did not return. Colts FB Stanley Havili sprained an ankle. … Wayne has 138 receptions for 1,956 yards and seven TDs against Jacksonville. … Gabbert fell to 5-21 as an NFL starter, including 3-2 against the Colts.


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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Wreaking Crew(1968)
The Wrecking Crew (1968). Cast: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer and Sharon Tate. The fourth and final film in a series of comedy-spy-fi featuring Martin as secret agent Matt Helm. As with the first three movies (The Silencers, Murderers' Row and The Ambushers), the film is based on Donald Hamilton's 1960 novel of the same name.
The story is simular to the Bond novel/film, Goldfinger, Helm's assignment is to bring down the evil count who is trying to steal gold. Along the way, Helm is partnered with a British agent played by Sharon Tate an accident-prone spy. Chuck Norris makes his film debut in a small role. It was the first film in the series to not be written by comedy writer Herbert Baker but by former police reporter and crime novel author William P. McGivern. The Wreaking Crew, is best known for the perfomance of Sharon Tate, who performed her own stunts and martial arts scenes cheroeographed by Bruce Lee.
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When this movie first came out I thought it was a little corny..but, now I really enjoy watching it.
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Thanks to donors, our medical students can…
… focus more on their education and less on their finances
" The generosity of all the scholarship donors relieves a great deal of emotional and financial stress … the willingness of the scholarship donors to give back allows us to breathe a sign of relief and reassures us that the ability to pay need not be the limited factor in higher education." — Geoffrey Fisher, second-year medical student
… pursue their dreams
"One thing that keeps us (students) motivated to stick with it is the support we get from others. The scholarship donors are an integral part of our support system." —Anna Venardos, second-year medical student
… make an impact in the community
"It would have been harder without your financial help to go to the HSC free clinic in Lubbock and spend another 4 hours there after a 12-hour day at the hospital … You have done a great service not only to me and my fellow classmates but also to the community in making better health care possible." —David Kidwell, fourth-year medical student
Words of gratitude and praise punctuated the annual School of Medicine Donor Appreciation Luncheon held April 14 at the TTU International Cultural Center Hall of Nations in Lubbock. School administration, faculty and students explained the important role donors have in their education as well as in the school's research and faculty development.
"Our donors provide our school with a wealth of opportunities in education and research," said School of Medicine Dean Steven Berk, M.D. "One of the goals is to bring in gifts that will help recruit and retain the brightest and best students and faculty, and provide much needed scholarships and assistance.
"We are truly fortunate to have extremely supportive partners in our mission."
Last year, donor support enabled the School of Medicine to provide more than $468,000 in scholarships to 217 students.
While the institution is always appreciative of the contributions made to TTUHSC, President Tedd Mitchell, M.D., said today's economy coupled with the ever-increasing need for physicians, makes the gifts even more valuable as TTUHSC strives to fulfill its mission.


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JEFFERSON City Schools will seek a line of credit, not to exceed $1 million, to cover expenses until tax collections roll in later this year. The board of education authorized a Tax Anticipatory Note (TAN) Thursday and will seek "the most competitive lender." Proposals will be sought from local banking institutions. The system expects a cash shortfall of 30 to 45 days. Jefferson plans to pay back the debt by mid-December. The system's fund equity is down to $395,739, which prompted the move. Jefferson also saw a reduction in state funding this year of nearly $1.9 million.
Jefferson BOE to seek line of credit to cover expenses
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Awe, come on Jefferson BOE go ahead and raise those taxes. Every other BOE in North Ga has!! Gotta pay those huge salaries some how.
They did raise the rate about a month ago. You (taxpayer) should look up some data before you write comments. Jefferson is always one of the top school systems in the state regarding efficiency measured by cost per student. When you factor their performance in, it is one of the best educational values in the state for taxpayers (high results at a low cost).
Jefferson City Schools do indeed SPEND the fewest dollars per student, but can anyone confirm the correlation to the actual budget (i.e. is the millage rate really among the lowest in the state)?
It is among the lowest; there are a few South Ga. county systems with lower rates. The thing you have to consider here too is the relative nature of the system's tax digest. Because it is a city system, much of Jefferson's tax digest is commercial and industrial while in other communities, the digest can be largely agricultural or residential. The makeup of a system's tax digest has a big impact on the tax rate. The real way to measure, though, is the cost per student because that is a consistent point of data.
Thank you. We're often quick to criticize, but sometimes we ought to commend our local elected officials for doing a good job. In Jefferson, they've done an admirable job.
Jefferson also covers up more than anyother system in the state. About a month ago drugs were found and "handled" by the school rather than the police. A cross bow was also located in a car again "handled" buy the school rather than the police. Now there is a pregnet middle schooler, but everyone in jefferson takes care of jefferson. No bad news is always good news.
Nooooo, I don't believe that about someone from Jefferson (sarcasm!). Every school has issues and problems...even Jefferson.
What does a "pregnet" middle school student have to do with the taxes we pay? I'm sure that kid with crossbow planned a huge school shooting too (sarcasm.) It is common practice for schools to handle drug issues too. If you don't like the schools send your kidsfree to Jackson County.


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Cristiano Ronaldo's hopes of gracing the World Cup next summer could rest on Monday's draw for the qualification play-offs.
Portugal could be handed a two-legged clash with France for a place in Brazil with the two countries in separate four-team pots for the draw, which involves sides who finished second in their European qualifying groups.
Les Bleus and a Zlatan Ibrahimovic-inspired Sweden are the sides to avoid in the lower-ranked pot two, with Romania and Iceland, who have never been to a World Cup, the two weakest teams on paper.
Greece, Croatia and Ukraine join Portugal in pot one, meaning France have their work cut out to make the finals. The 1998 winners last failed to qualify in 1994.
A Portugal side complete with the fearsome presence of Ronaldo appear the toughest ask, but Ukraine pushed England all the way their group and it is hard to imagine too many in France would relish a November trip to Kiev.
Greece, who were beaten to top spot by Bosnia and Herzegovina on goal difference, and Croatia, who have a new coach in Niko Kovac and finished well adrift of Belgium, appear on paper the easier options.
France, now ranked 21st in the world, finished second to Spain.
Boss Didier Deschamps accepted the threat of Ronaldo made Portugal unwelcome opponents, but added on www.20minutes.fr: "Playing against Greece, Croatia and Ukraine, who all play as teams, will be no easier or simpler."
The draw for the four play-off matches will take place in Zurich at 1pm.
The play-offs themselves will be played on November 15 and 19, with the first team drawn at home in the first leg. The away goals rule will apply.
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Lot 101: Ambrose - Letters
Books and Works on Paper: Part I - Bibliophile
by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury
October 27, 2016
London, United Kingdom
Live AuctionDescription: (Saint, Bishop of Milan). [Epistolae] , substantial fragment only, 50 ff., of 192, 40 lines, roman type, large initial 'I' on first page in green red and blue on a gold background, with marginal decoration including coloured flowers and foliage and gilt bezants, 4 other initials supplied in red or blue, last f. soiled, lower corner torn, some worming, little marking or spotting, disbound, in modern cloth case, with 1937 report from Birmingham Public Library, [BMC VI 722; Goff A553], folio, Milan, Antonius Zarotus , 1491. The last part only of a handsome edition of Ambrose, containing his De vocatione omnium gentium , De Isaach & anima , some shorter works, the colophon and a Register on the verso of the last f. The fine illuminated initial has been identified as work from the circle of Attavante degli Attavani (1452-c. 1525), cf. our sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 6th July 2016, lot 84.


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we've been doing this on the grill for years--a couple of minutes in the microwave with the potatoes before you put them in the pouch saves a lot of time on the grill or in the oven.
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I am a Reader in Physics of Information and a Royal Society University Research Fellow with the UCL Department of Computer Science. I started the Computer Science Quantum Information Interest Group. Our activities are connected with UCLQ: UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute. At present, I am also a Visiting Chair Professor with the Institute of Natural Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as a recipient of a 1000 Talents Program grant – my page at SJTU is here. My other links at UCL are CoMPLEX Research Group and UCL Institute of Origins. Here is a web page for the Quantum Computing, Information, and Algebras of Operators (QCIAO) collective.
See arXiv, MathSciNet, MPRA, PubMed, and IRIS.
Albert Atserias, Laura Mančinska, David E. Roberson, Robert Šámal, Simone Severini, Antonios Varvitsiotis, Quantum and non-signalling graph isomorphisms, November 2016. arXiv:1611.09837 [quant-ph]
M. Dairyko, L. Hogben, J. C.-H. Lin, J. Lockhart, D. Robertson, S. Severini, M. Young, Note on von Neumann and Renyi entropies of a graph, September 2016. arXiv:1609.00420 [math.CO]
L. Banchi, G. Coutinho, C. Godsil, S. Severini, Pretty Good State Transfer in Qubit Chains - The Heisenberg Hamiltonian, August 2016. arXiv:1608.04722 [quant-ph]
M. Rosicka, S. Severini, Permutation graphs and unique games, August 2016. arXiv:1608.06661 [math.CO]
Joshua Lockhart, Giorgia Minello, Luca Rossi, Simone Severini, and Andrea Torsello. Edge Centrality via the Holevo Quantity, pages 143-152. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49055-7_13, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49055-7_13.
Luca Rossi, Simone Severini, and Andrea Torsello. The Average Mixing Matrix Signature, pages 474-484. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49055-7_42, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49055-7_42.
J. Lockhart, S. Severini, Combinatorial entanglement, May 2016. arXiv:1605.03564 [quant-ph]
A. Dawar, S. Severini, O. Zapata, Descriptive complexity of graph spectra, March 2016. arXiv:1603.07030 [cs.LO]. WoLLIC 2016. 23rd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation. August 16th-19th, 2016. Puebla, Mexico.
P. Gnacinski, M. Rosicka, R. Ramanathan, K. Horodecki, M. Horodecki, P. Horodecki, S. Severini, Linear game non-contextuality and Bell inequalities - a graph-theoretic approach, arXiv:1511.05415 [quant-ph]. 2016 New J. Phys. 18 045020.
E. R. Hancock, L. Rossi, S. Severini, A, Torsello, R. C. Wilson, O. Zapata, Quantum-Inspired Graph Matching, Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning (as part of NIPS 2015), October 2015
A. Jurisic, A. Munemasa, S. Severini (Eds.), Algebraic Combinatorics: Spectral Graph Theory, Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorems and Quantum Information Theory, Special issue to celebrate the work of Chris Godsil, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 43, Number 4, June 2016.
Z. Chen, Z. Ma, T. Gao, S. Severini, A combinatorial criterion for k-separability of multipartite Dicke states, November 2015. arXiv:1511.00103 [quant-ph]
C. R. S. Banerji, M. Panamarova, R. B. White , S. Severini, P. S. Zammit, PAX3 and PAX7 but not DUX4 target gene expression characterise FSHD skeletal muscle, submitted.
C. R. S. Banerji, Network theoretic tools in the analysis of complex diseases, PhD thesis, June 2015.
F. Caravelli, T. Mansour, Sindoni, S. Severini, On moments of the integrated exponential Brownian motion, Europ. J. Phys., July 2016; 131:245. arXiv:1509.05980 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
R. Duan, S. Severini, A. Winter, On zero-error communication via quantum channels in the presence of noiseless feedback, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 62:9 (2016), 5260-5277. arXiv:1502.02987v1 [quant-ph]
A. E. Teschendorff, C. R. S. Banerji , S. Severini , R. Kuehn , P. Sollich, Increased signaling entropy in cancer requires the scale-free property of protein interaction networks, arXiv:1504.00120 [q-bio.MN], Sci. Rep. 5, Article number 9646, 2015.
C. R. S. Banerji, S. Severini, C. Caldas, A. E. Teschendorff, Intra-tumour signalling entropy determines clinical outcome in breast and lung cancer, PLoS Comput Biol 11(3): e1004115 (2015).
Zero forcing and its applications, Jan 30-Feb 3, American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, CA (Co-organizer with Shaun Fallat and Michael Young)
LMS Research School Combinatorics and Operators in Quantum Information Theory, Queen's University, Belfast, 5-9 September 2016. (Co-organizer with Ivan Todorov)
Workshop on Quantum Correlations, Contextuality and All That... Again, Natal, November 9-13, 2015. (Invited participant)
15th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference, August 24-30, 2015, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, Korea. (Sub-reviewer; Long contributed talk by Runyao Duan)


text: Trails in the Sky: The 3rd Is Actually Coming WestJason Schreier3/11/16 1:29pmFiled to: trails in the skytrails in the sky: the thirdxseedkotakucore12133EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Well, this is unexpected. The next Trails in the Sky game is coming to North America, publisher XSEED said today. It'll be out for PC in 2017. Advertisement This is the third game in the Trails in the Sky trilogy, which first hit U.S. shores in 2011. After a long, twisted journey full of all sorts of brutal challenges, XSEED finally released the second game, Trails SC, last October. The publisher had expressed interest in localizing the third game—which connects both to the first two Trails in the Sky games and to the rest of Falcom's sprawling RPG series—but after the pain and suffering that went into getting SC to the west, fans have been skeptical.Now it's official. Trails the 3rd, which stars the mysterious priest Kevin from SC, will be out in English next year. Advertisement In other welcome news for JRPG fans, it appears that the Trails series is doing well. XSEED said today in a press release that all of the games they've released in North America—Trails FC, Trails SC, and Trails of Cold Steel—have sold a total of 350,000 copies as of today.Anyone who reads Kotaku is undoubtedly familiar with my love for the Trails series—they're brilliant, intricate JRPGs that all connect in some fascinating, Suikoden-like ways. Needless to say I'm... excited about this news.XSEED also announced today that Trails of Cold Steel II, the direct sequel to December's excellent Cold Steel, will be out this fall. Like its predecessor, Cold Steel II will be on both PS3 and Vita. Sponsored In celebration of all this news, both currently released Trails in the Sky games will be discounted on Steam and PSN for the next week.You can reach the author of this post at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter email@example.com repliesLeave a reply


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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Neil Arnold on Binnall of America
This just in from Tim Binnall of Binnall of America:
Neil Arnold
Monster! - The A-Z of Zooform Phenomena
2 Hours, 20 Minutes
BoA:Audio examines the nebulous area between cryptids and the paranormal as we welcome Neil Arnold, author of the book Monster! - The A-Z of Zooform Phenomena. Over the course of the conversation, we'll discuss the zooform theory, potential candidates for zooform phenomena, trends in zooform reporting, creatures like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, and the Highgate Vampire as well as UFOs, MIBs, and alien abductions. We'll also talk about the Big Cat phenomenon in England as well as the overal 'tulpafication' of many paranormal entities.
Altogether, it is a mindbending edition of the program that will have you looking at numerous paranormal mysteries from an entirely different angle as we delve into the realm of the zooforms with Neil Arnold.
And here's the link to the episode...
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Drawing people is always my preoccupation when I am sketching outdoors. Cafe would be the best place to capture people reading, eating, drinking and talking. Next would be bus stops or on buses or the trains. I have also noticed more sketchers taking an interest in drawing people too. This is a good sign, as people make up the majority of an urban setting. In landscape drawings, we do sometime add people for size comparison or to scale things up. We could also use people to suggest depth and distance too. In this drawing, I used people as an element in my page design. The thin nib of the Muji fountain pen allows me to add more details of what they wear as textures. The most difficult part in drawing people is getting the proportions right. Other aspects would be the posture or the pose, and lastly the expressions. There is much to learn regarding drawing people. To me it has been a long winding road, but I enjoy it and love it as a challenge. I hope you do too.
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Lot 898: 1940s/50s Ohio Art Barn Yard Tin Litho Pail with Handle
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Sunday, February 06, 2005
The Knights
In an unusual coincidence, one of Southwest Virginia's most distinguished lawyers went to
the same Northern Virginia high school
as my wife, which school is the subject of
this commendation
being considered in this session of the General Assembly.
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MONTREAL - Interspersed with the tens of thousands of students protesting Tuesday were many demonstrators whose school days were far behind them — parents, grandparents, Communists, politicians and citizens upset over the direction their government is taking. The Gazette spoke to demonstrators to see what spurred them to march. Here are some of their comments:
Luc Séguin, 54, labour relations worker, father of a high school student (pictured above) "Since 1995, the government cut taxes to industries and the rich, so the proportion they pay is minimal compared to what a middle class family earning $100,000 pays — it's us that's taking the hit, and will continue forever to pay. Bill 78 is an anti-democratic law designed to muzzle the population. ... To put an end to the strike, the Liberals have to sit down and negotiate in good faith, and not like they did the last time, making an agreement, then announcing in the newspapers they've succeeded in screwing the students." Gabrielle Girard, 20, student in education at Université du Québec à Montréal, on strike since Feb. 23. (pictured above, centre) "We're here to fight the tuition hike, but also the manner in which the Charest government has handled this. It's three months we've protested in the streets, and the government won't talk to us. ... I say either Charest finally talks to students, or he has to call an election to end all of this. Elections or negotiations. Otherwise, there's no way out." Charles Rondeau, 32, community worker and member of the communist group Mouvement révolutionnaire ouvrier (Workers' Revolutionary Movement) "For us it's much larger than the tuition hikes — it's a fight against the politics of austerity of this government that serves essentially to save capitalism from its current crisis. ... We want to push for a socialist revolution. ... We want political institutions where workers will have a say every day in how society is run, and not just once every four years when they get to vote. ... The main goal is a more egalitarian society." Samuel René de Cotret, 27, Masters student in physics at Université de Sherbrooke (pictured above, far right) "We're here to protest the tuition hikes and Bill 78, a totalitarian law that serves nothing but to inflame the tensions. And also to protest against several of the Charest government's decisions that were taken unilaterally that don't favour Quebec, but do favour private interests. .... The corruption of the Charest government concerns me, and I want elections to be called so we can clean house."