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As much as 75% of all pregnancies worldwide are unplanned or unwanted, accounting for nearly 300,000 new pregnancies every day.1 To the extent that rapid population growth can lead to low levels of human capital investment and continued poverty for future generations, the ability to control fertility can have broad social and economic consequences. Recent evidence suggests that access to contraceptives may improve economic outcomes and reduce poverty by allowing women to optimally time births, increasing women's investment in education and participation in the labor market at childbearing ages. There are also direct consequences for individual well-being: significant reported need for contraceptives suggests that fertility outcomes outstrip fertility desires in many parts of the developing world.
Women's unmet need for contraceptives is commonly explained by three factors: (i) insufficient supply of appropriate contraception; (ii) lack of information or misinformation about those methods; and (iii) restrictive social norms governing fertility control. An alternative hypothesis is that excess fertility reflects the outcome of bargaining between partners with divergent fertility preferences. In many countries men dominate decisions regarding sexual relations and contraception, and spousal discordance may be a prominent factor influencing fertility outcomes.
Zambia currently holds one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratios, with 729 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births,2 and a similarly high infant mortality ratio with 103 deaths per 1,000 live births.3 Family planning and reproductive health services are not uniformly available throughout the country, and 60% of currently pregnant women in Lusaka report that the pregnancy was unwanted. Although 100% of women reporting unwanted pregnancies report being familiar with at least one method of modern contraception, only 48% have ever used any modern method of contraception, and only 37% currently use modern contraceptives.
This study evaluates the effect of male involvement on female contraceptive use through an experiment designed to remove the factors of insufficient supply, lack of information, misinformation, and divergent fertility preferences. Study participants include 1,994 married women who had given birth in the last two years living in compounds serviced by Chipata Clinic in Lusaka.
Women in the study received vouchers that granted appointments with a family planning nurse at the local government clinic, without waiting more than one hour and with guaranteed access to the modern contraceptive method of their choice. An information session explaining all methods of family planning was also given to study participants at the time of voucher distribution. Women were randomized into two treatment groups. In the "individual" arm of the study, women were given these vouchers alone. In the "couples" arm, women were given these vouchers in the presence of their husbands. In all other respects, the experimental protocol in the individual and couples arms was identical.
Take up of the voucher was high at 47%, indicating that women valued the substantial reduction in the time cost of an appointment associated with the voucher.
However, evidence suggests that sharing information about family planning services with husbands reduces the couple's propensity to utilize these services. Women who received the voucher in the presence of their husbands were 9 percentage points (18%) less likely to use the voucher to obtain an appointment at a family planning clinic. There is an even larger, 12 percentage point reduction in voucher use for couples where the husband reported wanting more children than the wife. Still a larger reduction in use is reported among younger couples, giving evidence for the hypothesis that differences in future preferences for fertility drive differences in demand for family planning services.
Male knowledge of the voucher led to a substantial reduction in use of these services, suggesting that policies or technologies that shift relative control of contraceptive methods from men to women may significantly increase contraceptive use and reduce average fertility in some contexts. This is important to note given that an increasing number of policymakers have started to promote "male involvement" in family planning. It also suggests that take up of particular modern contraceptive methods may be sensitive to the amount of control women can exercise relative to their husbands in the use of these methods.
For information about this project, click here.
1 Partners In Health, "Women's Health – Reducing maternal mortality, improving reproductive health", http://www.pih.org/issues/maternal.html. (Accessed September 21, 2009)
2 USAID, "Population, Health and Nutrition Issues in Zambia",http://www.usaid.gov/zm/population/phn.htm. (Accessed September 21, 2009)
3 UNICEF, "Zambia Statistics", http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/zambia_statistics.html. (Accessed September 21, 2009)
When young girls struggle to stay in school, they risk not being able to develop the skills necessary to support themselves, and relying on male partners for resources who oftentimes demand sex in return. Such relationships are prevalent across sub-Saharan Africa, leaving young girls highly vulnerable to HIV infection and unwanted pregnancy, evidenced by the two-to-one ratio of HIV rates among young women versus their male counterparts. [1] The World Health Organization has identified negotiation skills for women and expanded efforts to keep girls in school as critical tools for reducing HIV rates among women in Sub-Saharan Africa. [2] Designing school curriculum to provide girls with a stronger education and new skill sets has the potential to change gender dynamics and improve health outcomes for this vulnerable population.
School data for Zambia shows a dramatic decline in female enrollment from primary to secondary school years.[3] While this drop is normally attributed to the commencement of school fees in the eighth grade, a closer look reveals that school dropout rate increases start prior to the fee increase. In grade five, the drop-out rate is three times higher for girls than boys. [4]
This project tests the impact of negotiation training in addition to the current school curricula on HIV/AIDS, health, and education outcomes among Zambian girls. Through a randomized controlled trial, this study analyzes whether negotiation skills that allow a girl to reshape her understanding of a conflict and her communications with others, can ultimately result in more favorable resource allocations.
This study isolates the impact of teaching information versus teaching negotiation by layering two interventions on top of a "social capital" program, including time with other girls in a safe space.
About 2,400 grade eight girls from across 20 schools in Lusaka will be randomly assigned to participate in one of three two-week programs. About 120 girls will be engaged per school, with roughly 40 girls in each program:
The Negotiation Curriculum is structured by four principles: "Me," or identifying one's own interests and options in conflict situations; "You," or identifying the other person's interests, needs, and perspective; "Together," or identifying shared interests and small trades; and "Build," or developing win-win solutions. The curriculum also accounts for some negotiations in which it is necessary to be patient, or "Take 5," and others in which the only outcome to keep the girl safe and healthy is to walk away and not negotiate.
Outcome measures will measure both the size and source of impact, capturing transformations in the girl's capabilities, her interactions with others, and the outcomes of those interactions:
Results forthcoming. If successful, this program curriculum could be scaled up countrywide in partnership with the Ministry of Education to increase schooling attainment and lower HIV infections at a relatively low cost.
For more information about this project, click here.
[1] (UNAIDS (2010) "UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic" p.183)
[2] WHO's Gender, Inequalities, and Health (2009): http://www.who.int/gender/hiv_aids/en/,
[3]UNICEF (2011) "State of the World's Children." p.107
[4]Zambia DHS 2007, p. 21
Financing for carbon offset investments is growing quickly. The voluntary market for carbon offsets traded over 700 million dollars worth of emissions reductions in 2008, a third of which came from land use projects.[1] These investments have the potential to benefit smallholder farmers, not only by creating revenue from selling carbon credits, but also by incentivizing more climate-resilient agricultural practices and technologies to increase production. Many climate change programs that target smallholder farmers seek to modify current agricultural practices, whether to sequester additional carbon or to improve climate resiliency. Because these changes often impose costs on the farmer, many programs provide upfront inputs or incentives for adopting and complying with the program's objectives.
However, in spite of a growing number of NGO- and government-led adaptation and climate resilience projects, farmer adoption remains a challenge and concerns persist due to the high cost of inputs, training and monitoring in comparison to the value of the credits earned from sequestered carbon. A more rigorous understanding of the relationship between input costs, compliance incentives and program outcomes may help improve the success and cost effectiveness of both carbon offsets and climate resiliency programs. To date, none of the numerous programs that offer landholders inputs or performance payments have systematically varied contract design to generate causal evidence on the determinants of program success. This study proposes address this knowledge gap in the context of a program promoting fertilizer trees in Eastern Zambia.
The project implementation is designed to allow the researchers to investigate (a) the role of option value in shaping farmer decisions, and (b) the effect of cost sharing and performance incentives on selection into the project and on long-run performance under the contract.
The partner organization, Mitengo Zambia promotes a fertilizer tree (Faidherbia albida), locally known as the masangu tree, both for its carbon sequestration potential and its ability to help farmers adapt to a changing climate. Faidherbia fixes nitrogen in its leaves, providing benefits to farmers, including better soil fertility, maize yields and resilience to climate change. To grow the tree, seedlings must be purchased and raised, and then planted among low growing crops, weeded and watered. These adoption costs are highest in the first year and tree survival is low.
Mitengo Zambia has partnered with Dunavant Cotton to investigate the carbon sequestration and soil fertility potential of encouraging agroforestry adoption among Dunavant farmers. Findings from the research phase will be incorporated in program scale-up with Dunavant Zambia Limited, a leading cotton ginning company in Zambia.
Around 2,000 outgrower farmers associated with Dunavant cotton in Chipata, Eastern Province, Zambia receive training and subsidized inputs (seedlings) for growing Faidherbia on their land. Most Dunavant farmers produce on a small-scale, with a mean landholding size in the study sample of around one hectare, and have access to loans for cotton inputs from Dunavant. The company organizes the farmers into groups of approximately 15 geographically clustered farmers. Each group has one lead farmer who, under the Dunavant system, is responsible for training his farmer group on cotton production and, under the Mitengo Zambia program, on Faidherbia planting and management.
Lead farmers organize trainings on Faidherbia for their groups of farmers, which are attended by Mitengo Zambia and IPA staff who assist with administration of the treatments and the baseline survey.
After their training, farmers decide whether to join the program based on two factors:
(1) Variation in input prices – Farmer groups will be randomly assigned to receive one of four input prices that range from fully subsidized (free) to the cost-recovery price for the implementing organization (approximately $2.50 US). A transport allowance (of $2.50), provided to the farmers to remunerate any transportation costs of attending the lead farmer's training, ensures that farmers have enough cash to make a participation decision based on willingness to pay, not on liquidity constraints. Variation in input prices allows researchers to test hypotheses on risk and on cost-sharing. Specifically, how the probability of take-up changes as the input prices increase, controlling for individual characteristics and incentives, will be assessed.
(2) Variation in incentives – Individuals will be randomly assigned to receive different levels of incentive pay, which farmers are informed of either before or after making their take-up decision. The range of incentives is based on project pilots from the previous year, which ranged from $0 - $30 (0 - 150,000 ZMK). The use of scratch-off cards to reveal the incentives ensures that incentives cannot be manipulated and that the variation is perceived as fair by the participants. Incentives will be paid after one year, conditional on 70% tree survival. All farmers received 50 seedlings. The variation in incentives will allow researchers to test the causal effect of incentives, by comparing the probability of take-up and the rate of tree survival for farmers at different incentive levels, controlling for individual characteristics.
At the time of training, farmers receive a detailed baseline household questionnaire that includes modules on demographics, socioeconomic status, agriculture and environmental knowledge. The survey is administered to all farmers who attend the training, regardless of their decision to participate. One year after contracts are initiated, all participating farmers will be visited and the number of surviving trees recorded, an incentive payments delivered on the basis of tree survival.
Summary results forthcoming.
See more information including detailed findings from an in-country event with cross-sector stakeholders from the Zambian government, private sector, international donor and research community, and leading non-governmental organizations here.
[1]Conte, M. and M. Kotchen. Explaining the price of voluntary carbon offsets. Working Paper. (2009)
As much as 50% of all pregnancies worldwide are unplanned or unwanted, accounting for nearly 300,000 new pregnancies every day. The ability to control fertility can have broad social and economic consequences since families experiencing unwanted pregnancies may find it harder to pay for their children's education, healthcare and general wellbeing. Recent evidence suggests that access to contraceptives may improve economic outcomes and reduce poverty by allowing women to optimally time births, increasing investment in education and participation in the labor market at childbearing ages. There are also direct consequences for individual well-being: significant reported need for contraceptives suggests that people are having more children than they desire in many parts of the developing world. One possible reason is that in many countries men dominate decisions regarding sexual relations and contraception, and spousal discordance may influence fertility outcomes.
Male involvement is a growing trend in reproductive health, but has the potential to do more harm than good if men oppose contraceptive use due to misinformation or personal biases. A past study found that women were less likely to seek family planning services if their husbands were present when the services were offered, implying that unmet need for fertility and excess fertility may reflect underlying differences between partner preferences. However, because survey responses indicated that family planning was primarily being used for child spacing, rather than controlling total family size, male preferences may be malleable if they are educated on the adverse health effects of bearing multiple children close together without adequate time for the mother's recovery.
Zambia currently holds one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratios, with 729 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, and a similarly high infant mortality ratio with 92 deaths per 1,000 live births. Family planning and reproductive health services are not uniformly available throughout the country, and 60% of currently pregnant women in Lusaka report that the pregnancy was unwanted. Although 100% of women reporting unwanted pregnancies report being familiar with at least one method of modern contraception, including pills, condoms, injectable contraceptives and contraceptive implants, only 48% of women have ever used any modern method of contraception, and only 37% currently use modern contraceptives. This study is a follow-up to a two-year study in 2007 that found that women were less likely to seek family planning services if their husbands were present when the services were offered.
This study will investigate potential avenues to involve male partners in family planning decisions, both by understanding the origins of male preferences and designing educational measures to better inform them about the importance of family planning. By providing information on the increased risk of maternal mortality when a woman has children too close together, this program aims to increase male acceptance of family planning, and therefore improve the ability to involve males in health decisions without risking female health.
Approximately three-quarters of the couples will be randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups, while the rest will serve as a comparison group. One group of couples will receive information on family planning and maternal health in a one-on-one setting. This will include information on the risk of maternal mortality and morbidity, how it grows with age and number of children, its causes and how family planning can be used to help women by spacing births and reducing family size. A second group will receive this information through community meetings. A third treatment group will receive the information on family planning both one-on-one and in a community meeting. All participants will be asked to sign up for a family planning consultation following the educational session. The comparison group will be asked to answer a survey, and then also be asked to sign up for a family planning counseling session. The participants' take up of the family planning consultation and subsequent demand of and attitudes toward family planning will be used to measure each intervention's success. Contraceptive use and fertility outcomes will be monitored through clinic data. Couples will also be surveyed again after one year to measure subsequent fertility and stated preferences for children and for family planning.
Results forthcoming.
1 Partners In Health, "Women's Health – Reducing maternal mortality, improving reproductive health", available at http://www.pih.org/issues/maternal.html
2 USAID, "Population, Health and Nutrition Issues in Zambia", available athttp://www.usaid.gov/zm/population/phn.htm.
3 UNICEF, "Zambia Statistics", available athttp://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/zambia_statistics.html.
Community health workers (CHWs) are commonly regarded as a potential solution to the shortage of formal health workers throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Recruited from their communities, trained, and then deployed back to their communities, it is thought that CHWs are more likely to have the necessary relationships, local knowledge, and sense of community responsibility to deliver health services to underserved populations in rural areas, where retention of formal health workers is a perennial challenge.
While small-scale, informal CHW programs have existed for many years, recently many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have sought to formalize the CHW cadre and implement national CHW programs at scale. Little is known, however, about how to carry out this process effectively. In particular, there is a dearth of evidence on two fundamental questions: Who are the 'right' people within communities to become CHWs, and how can incentives be used to motivate CHWs to the highest performance levels? Recruiting the best workers and motivating them effectively are critical for ensuring low turnover and high performance of a national CHW workforce.
In 2010, the Government of Zambia announced a new national Community Health Worker Strategy that will aim to train 5,000 new CHWs by 2015—a massive investment in a country with only 6,000 nurses. These community health workers will undergo a year of formal training, and will then be posted back to their rural communities, where it is envisioned that they will do most of their work directly within the community, rather than operating from a health facility. The national strategy intends that CHWs will be the first line of health care for Zambians living in the most remote regions of the country.
Before launching the full strategy, the Government of Zambia is implementing a pilot study involving the recruitment, training, and deployment of 315 community health workers across 48 rural districts to examine the most successful methods of recruiting and compensating CHWs.
To examine the selection of community health workers, two recruitment treatments will be used in the pilot study, which will vary in the way in which the job opportunity is framed. In a randomly selected half of the 48 participating districts, recruitment messages will emphasize the "community" benefits of becoming a CHW, such as serving and being a leader in one's community. In the other half, recruitment efforts will emphasize the "career" benefits of becoming a CHW, such as opportunities for promotion or further professional development. The hypothesis of this experiment is that the recruitment treatments will select for CHWs who possess different characteristics and motivations, and those differences may predict long-term retention and performance.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the Government of Zambia, researchers are refining a set of incentive schemes that will be tested in order to understand how they affect CHW motivation and performance. It is expected that the final schemes will focus on non-monetary incentives, such as providing CHWs with professional feedback, social recognition, and career advancement opportunities. By randomly allocating the same 48 districts to receive different incentives, the project will be able to test both the overall effects of different reward schemes as well as how the schemes interact with the manner in which CHWs were recruited.
The immediate goal of this study is to provide practical guidance to the Government of Zambia as it prepares to implement the full national CHW strategy. More broadly, this study will give insight to governments and policy makers on how various sources of social recognition (e.g., from government, peers, or the community) and methods of performance feedback (e.g., absolute or relative) can affect the recruitment and motivations of health workers, in ways that potentially predict job performance.
For information about this project, click here.
Non-profit and public organizations increasingly rely on the services of community members to deliver and promote health goods. Community member involvement in the distribution of health goods can have significant benefits for the community at large, but only if the commitment and motivation of the community members is sustainable. While there is a significant literature on the role of incentives in the commercial sphere, there is little evidence on how various compensation schemes affect motivation when a task has a social benefit. Standard financial incentives that increase motivation in the commercial sphere may actually crowd-out intrinsic motivation for socially beneficial tasks, which may reduce overall performance. Alternatively, financial incentives may have little impact on performance if individuals drawn to mission-driven organizations place little weight on financial gains. Thus, the question of how to compensate community agents remains a challenge for many non-profit employers who hope to leverage this valuable community resource.
Zambia has one of the world's highest adult HIV prevalence rates at 14.3 percent. It is estimated that in 2009, 1 million Zambians were living with HIV and 45,000 died of HIV related causes. Although male and female condoms are currently the only protection methods available for HIV, condom use is low and its social acceptability remains problematic. The female condom may be particularly important in the public health community, as it is the only female-controlled tool for HIV/AIDS and other STI prevention. However, like many new technologies, a lack of information about correct use, commonly held misconceptions about the product, and insufficient distribution networks hinder uptake and use of the female condom. This evaluation seeks to investigate the use of hair stylists as private sector channels for the distribution of female condoms.
Researchers partnered with Society for Family Health (SFH) to evaluate their female condom distribution program in Lusaka. SFH's strategy uses social marketing to promote and distribute health products via community-based agents with connections to the local community. In this case, the community agents were hairdressers and barbers in Lusaka, who were asked to promote female condoms through their shops. Hairstylists were identified as ideal promoters of female condoms both because the familiarity between the stylist and the client creates the potential for successful targeting of female condom to "at risk" customers, and because during the period that a client is in the salon, he or she is a captive audience, allowing the stylist to provide information about the condom.
The study testedthe effect of both financial and non-financial rewards on the selection and performance of agents engaged in promoting female condoms by randomly assigning 1,222 hair stylists to one of four groups:
Several key features served to identify the effect of different incentive schemes on performance and the underlying mechanisms: (1) Information was collected on all agents who could have applied for the job, to test whether different incentive contracts attract different agents type; (2) Agents' performance was measured monthly over a one year horizon, to test whether changes in behavior may be due to a novelty effect; and (3) A modified altruism (dictator) game yielded direct and quantitative measure of the agents' motivation for the cause, and tested whether financial incentives reduced performance by crowding out intrinsic motivation.
Condom Sales:Non-financial incentives were the most effective at generating female condom sales. Hair stylists in the "star" treatment sold twice as many packs of condoms (14 vs 7) as agents in any other group. In other words, the likelihood of selling at least one pack was 12 percentage points higher for agents in the star treatment; this represents a 33 percent increase over the mean of the control group. Agents in the high and low financial reward treatments, in contrast, were not more likely to sell at least one pack than agents in the control group. However, the sales levels overall were generally low. Even in the star treatment, the average promoter sold slightly more than one pack per month.
Mechanisms of impact: Further analysis indicates that the non-financial incentives operated through two channels. First, non-financial incentives seemed to leverage intrinsic motivation for the cause - they were more than twice as effective for stylists who are motivated by the cause, as measured both by their donation in the altruism game and by personal characteristics correlated with motivation. Second, non-financial incentives appear to have facilitated social comparison among stylists - the impact of the incentives increased with the number of neighboring salons that received the same treatment.
Contrary to existing evidence, researchers found no evidence that financial incentives crowded out intrinsic motivation. On the contrary, high financial rewards were more effective for agents who scored higher on our motivation measure.
Malaria is one of the world's foremost public health concerns, causing as many as 1 million deaths each year, the majority of which occur in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Malaria is often associated with poverty—the poor are most affected, likely because they have reduced access to medical services and information, and the lowest ability to avoid working in malaria epidemic areas. The disease can also perpetuate poverty, taking a high toll on households and healthcare systems. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), a fast and reliable blood test to detect the malaria parasite, can make the detection and treatment of malaria more efficient. The World Health Organization estimated in 2008 that only 20% of patients with suspected malaria were being subjected to diagnostic tests; the rest were clinically diagnosed based on their symptoms. A mistaken clinical diagnosis can lead to over-prescription of malaria treatment and increased drug resistance among malaria parasites as well as waste of limited drug supplies. This study tests different mechanisms for encouraging the use of and compliance with the results of RDT
In 2008, there were 247 million cases of malaria and nearly one million deaths, primarily among children living in Africa.2 Malaria is the leading cause of mortality in Zambia and is responsible for one quarter of childhood deaths.3 Despite improvements in technology that allow for affordable and simple mechanisms to diagnose malaria and effective regimens to treat malaria, the disease continues to be a significant health challenge in many Sub-Saharan African countries. The development of sensitive and specific RDTspresents an opportunity to improve the targeting of treatment for malaria. RDTs use modern molecular biological technology to allow diagnosis by a health worker with limited training in just fifteen minutes. RDTs can detect with great accuracy the existence of antigens that are produced in the presence of malaria parasites.
This study will identify what barriers prevent health workers from using RDTs, and will test different mechanisms for encouraging the use of and compliance with RDTs. Approximately one thousand health facilities from across Zambia will be randomly to one of three treatment groups or a comparison group, which will see no changes in treatment. The three treatment programs include:
These three interventions will allow the researchers to determine what issues are preventing the use of RDTs, and determine what format of information dissemination is most effective for communicating with healthcare providers.
1 WHO, "10 Facts on Malaria," http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/malaria/en/index.html.
2 WHO, "Malaria," http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/.
3 USAID, "Population, Health and Nutritional Issues in Zambia," http://www.usaid.gov/zm/population/phn.htm.
More than 1 billion people living in low-income countries do not have access to clean drinking water,1 leaving them at risk for diarrheal diseases which are transmitted when a water supply is contaminated with fecal matter. Diarrhea remains a serious concern in low-income countries, where it caused 2.6 million deaths per year between 1990 and 2000.2 Even when diarrheal episodes do not prove fatal, they can have long-term consequences on a child's cognitive and physical development. Multiple interventions from handwashing to water source protection have been considered, but questions remain. Particularly, it is not known whether people will be more likely to use a product if it is given for free, or if the consumer is charged a small positive price.
Contaminated water is a leading cause of diarrhea in Zambia, where only 64% of the population has access to safe drinking water sources. Among children under five, 21% have had diarrhea in the past two weeks, regardless of water source or location.3 Many homes in Lusaka, Zambia's largest city, obtain water from un-sanitized sources. Clorin, an inexpensive chlorine bleach solution used to kill pathogens in drinking water, is a popular product in Zambia to reduce the incidence of water-borne illnesses, and approximately 80% of people have used it at some point. Charging for this effective health intervention could potentially discourage use, but by virtue of having paid for it, it is also possible that people might value the product more, increasing its use. Because it is hard to determine using observational data whether higher prices results in more product usage, or simply deliver the product to those who value it most, an experiment is needed help separate the effects.
Researchers present evidence on the effect of prices on product use from a large-scale field experiment. The intervention consisted of a door-to-door sale of Clorin at a randomly chosen, below-market "offer price" to about 1,260 households with poor access to piped water or chlorine home-delivery. Clorin, retailing for about 25 cents, is inexpensive so as not to discourage use based on income. Those who chose to buy the product were then offered a randomly chosen discount, allowing for a varied "transaction price". Researchers returned to those households and conducted a follow-up survey and chemical water test to determine how often Clorin was used.
Screening and Sunk Cost Effect:Researchers sought to find whether higher prices can help target those who would most use the product (screening effect) by seeing if, as the offer price rose, those who chose to buy Clorin had higher usage, implying higher expected benefits. Researchers also sought to determine whether higher prices resulted in a higher propensity to use (sunk cost effect). Assuming households incur a higher psychological cost if they do not use a product they have paid more for, they will be likely to use Clorin if the price was increased. Therefore, for a given offer price, a higher transaction price could lead to a stronger desire to rationalize one's purchase through use.
Impact on Clorin Use:Researchers found that fewer people bought Clorin as the price rose; for every 1% increase in price there was a 0.67% decrease in quantity demanded. However higher prices did appear to screen out those who would not have used the product in any event, and a higher willingness to pay was associated with greater propensity to use. As the offer price increased by 10%, use increased by 4% on average among those who did buy the Clorin. No sunk cost effect was observed.
Overall, the use of chlorine does decrease with higher prices due to dampened demand, but this decline is partially offset by better targeting of the product to families who are likely to use it. Significantly, there was no evidence that higher offer prices screened out poorer or less educated households.
1Un/UNICEF, "Water for Life," http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/waterforlife.pdf.
2 Disease Control- Priorities Project, "Public Health Significance of Diarrheal Illnesses," http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/19/Section/2531.
3 PSI/Zamia, "Society for Family Health: PSI/Zambia," http://www.psi.org/zambia
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Aiken's CD "Tried and True," released last week, is a collection of 13 songs from the 1950s and 1960s, all of which predate the 31-year-old Aiken. But Aiken feels intimately familiar with the music that he heard as a child, while riding in the car with his mother.
The songs, including "Mack the Knife," ''Unchained Melody" and "Moon River," are not merely standards, but songs Aiken wants to sing live. And since many singers make their bread and butter from touring these days, Aiken says he never wants to record another song that he won't perform live in concert.
"There are certain songs I've recorded that I've never sung since the studio," says Aiken, who starts a tour in July with good friend Ruben Studdard, to whom he came in second on "American Idol" in 2003. "So every song on this album is a song that I enjoy singing and love doing live."
The cover for the album features a different look for Aiken: He's pictured with slicked-back blonde hair, not his usual red, in a photo that harkens another era. Still, there is something comfortable about it: He's sitting in a well-known restaurant in Raleigh, where he grew up (he lives in an area nearby).
"I wanted everything to be about being at home," says Aiken — his hair back to red — as he sits beside his mother, Faye Parker, at her home in Raleigh.
Aiken is equally comfortable talking about his sexuality as he is about his music. He came out in September 2008 after the birth of his son, Parker, who was born through in-vitro fertilization to a friend, Jaymes Foster.
His newly redesigned Website still has promotions for his favorite projects — UNICEF and The Inclusion Project. But now it also includes GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which focuses on safe schools for all students.
Aiken chose GLSEN because of the teasing and name-calling he endured on school buses and classroom hallways.
"But the truth is, when I look back on it, I absolutely know that (being gay) is why I got picked on. People said it, we heard it," Aiken says, glancing at his mother.
Even though his mother knew about the bullying, Parker says she didn't acknowledge Aiken was gay until he told her at the end of 2004.
"I heard the kids call him names," she said. "I knew some things about him were a little bit more effeminate than others. But parents engage in denial."
Aiken wonders if his endorsement for GLSEN will make a difference for gay kids. "I don't know what it would have done for me," he says. "But I feel like there's a potential impact there."
The 2009 student advocate of the year for GLSEN, Austin Laufersweiler, says gay teens do care when a famous person acknowledges their sexuality.
"The face that significant people identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender gives this cause credibility and it certainly allows one to be more courageous," said Laufersweiler, 18, of Marietta, Ga., who just graduated from high school. "It really spreads the message that I can come out in school if this person can come out to the whole world."
The GLSN promotion is another step in gay rights advocacy for Aiken, who spoke in February at the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas gala in Raleigh. He's also taken to his blog to criticize anti-gay statements and legislation.
Aiken credits his increased advocacy to his son Parker, who Aiken hopes grows up in a different kind of world as far as treatment of homosexuals (Aiken and Foster share custody of Parker, who visits Aiken's home in two- to three-week stints typically).
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The UCI puts Verge, NACT and Delta House on double-secret probation.
by Joe Lindsey
The UCI has never exactly been adept at communications, but a decision made recently might bump the bar a little higher for organizational ineptitude on that front.
Promoters in the U.S. including Brook Watts of the North American Cyclocross Trophy tour and Adam Myerson, who organizes the Verge New England series, found out that the UCI planned to suddenly enforce a rule that it never has before.
The rule, which holds that any series of UCI-sanctioned races must be sanctioned as a series as well as the individual events within it, could retroactively ban any series which has not complied. (The rule also sets the maximum number of events in a series at 8, which Verge NECCS is also over the limit on, with 10 rounds for this season.)
Going forward, promoters could inscript an entire series, or individual races, but any series that wasn't UCI-sanctioned for 2010-11 won't be allowed to seek that for next season. The US Grand Prix of Cyclocross apparently was aware of the rule and applied for series-wide sanction, but Verge and NACT did not.
Myerson, for one, now plans not to inscript the Verge series next year, but offer that as a USA Cycling series without UCI sanctioning, and work with other promoters to apply for a new series with eight races – one race from each weekend of racing including four previous Verge events and four previous standalone events.
The punishment doesn't affect 2010-11 series per se – existing UCI races retain their points and can be individually sanctioned next year – but it means that for 2011-12, the only UCI full series in the US will be the USGP and, possibly, the New England series that Myerson and others are trying to piece together from existing events.
There have been cases in the past where promoters simply haven't been careful in reading the rules; and cases where USA Cycling simply missed an important rule that they should've caught (the 2004 Olympic mountain bike fiasco is one prominent example).
This doesn't appear to be that kind of situation. Myerson pointed out that the rule in question isn't even in the cyclocross-specific section, and the UCI didn't communicate its intent to enforce the rule until November.
But the USGP obviously both knew about the rule and – though it had never been enforced – took it seriously enough to follow, which raises the question of whether someone, either a promoter or USA Cycling, failed to share something with other promoters that they should have.
As of now, both Myerson and USA Cycling are communicating with the UCI in hopes of a reprieve of some kind, but he's not confident that will happen. "This was a decision made by the 'cross commission," he said. "It's not something (UCI commissioner) Peter van den Abeele can undo himself."
But it's a bit of a head-scratcher why the UCI decided to get hardcore in the first place. One rationale is that the UCI put the rules in place with an eye to the all-important Belgian 'cross scene, and the US issues are collateral damage.
The eight-race maximum is a means of controlling independent series like the Gazet van Antwerpen and SuperPrestige, so that they're not more important than the UCI's own World Cup property (which carries more than double the points per win than a C1-rated SuperPrestige round).
The other thought is that it's a way of regulating a US calendar that's grown dramatically in the last decade. There are over 40 races in the US rated C1 or C2 – more than any other nation on the calendar except Belgium; it's a schedule some criticize as oversaturated and leading to inflated points totals among domestic riders.
They're both true, says Myerson. "I don't want to go so far as to say it's anti-competition, but it has that effect," he said. "They don't want one race series to dominate the calendar.
"But why is it finally being enforced here? There used to be a free-for-all for promoters in the US under Euro-focused rules that didn't apply here. Now we have a crackdown – the UCI feels the growth is out of control because event quality at some US races isn't up to the C1 or C2 standard the UCI looks for."
But as Myerson has pointed out, given the geographical spread of the US scene, the sheer number of events not a fair approximation of actual density, which is more important. Given that Belgium is roughly the same size as the footprint covered by the Verge series and not many riders travel nationwide to race, it's more accurate to divide the US scene into regions – a point that Myerson says the UCI does recognize.
Here's hoping that discussions this week lead to a happy resolution; a hardcore crackdown by the UCI could stunt the sport's growth – not exactly what it needs with a World Championships on U.S. soil in 2013.
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Catch an intimate glimpse of the long-term friendship between American artist Leonard Baskin and the British poet Ted Hughes. This will be the first American viewing of the fascinating documentary video The Artist and the Poet: Leonard Baskin and Ted Hughes in Conversation. The documentary is comprised of images set to an audio recording of Baskin and Hughes captured by their mutual friend, filmmaker Noel Chanan in 1983. In this wonderfully relaxed conversation the two talk about their friendship, artistic collaborations, and the influence they had on one another's work. The recordings are particularly revealing about their differing conceptions of the crow. The video will be followed by a conversation with Lisa Baskin and Jay A. Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints Drawings and Photographs at the Clark.


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For the lucky ones travelling to Italy in the coming months, we found a guide to Italy's coffee culture. Italians take their coffee very seriously; it is an art. Here are a few directions if you don't want to be taken for a tourist.
-Un caffè is a single espresso in Italian. Espresso is just a technical term, not an everyday one. Order carefully.
-Any milky form of coffee is only allowed in the morning, and never after a meal. If you must, apologize to the barman or waiter.
-There are very few choices with Italian coffee, so do not expect a Starbucks menu. There are, however, regional variations throughout Italy. For example, in Naples you may order un caffè alla nocciola – a frothy espresso with hazelnut cream. Additionally, you can impress the local in Milan by ordering a marocchino – an upside-down cappuccino, service in a small glass which is first sprinkled with cocoa powder, then hit with a blob of frothed milk, then spiked with a shot of espresso.
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AIDS is caused by at least 2 known types of HIV. HIV type 1 (HIV-1), was isolated from patients with AIDS, AIDS-related complex, and asymptomatic infected individuals at high risk for AIDS. The virus is transmitted by sexual contact, exposure to infected blood or blood products, or from an infected mother to her fetus or infant. HIV type 2 (HIV-2) was isolated from patients in West Africa in 1986. It appears to be endemic only in West Africa, and it also has been identified in individuals who had sexual relations with individuals from that geographic region. HIV-2 is similar to HIV-1 in viral morphology, overall genomic structure, and its ability to cause AIDS.
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Follow-up serologic testing of patients with reactive rapid HIV antibody screening test results
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Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
A reactive HIV-1/-2 antibody screening test result suggests the presence of HIV-1 and/or HIV-2 infection. However, it does not differentiate between HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibody reactivity. Confirmatory testing by HIV-1 antibody-specific Western blot (WB) or immunofluorescence assay (IFA) is necessary to verify the presence of HIV-1 infection. Presence of HIV-2 infection is confirmed by the HIV-2 antibody-specific immunoblot assay.
A negative HIV-1/-2 antibody screening test result indicates the absence of HIV-1 or HIV-2 infection. However, confirmatory HIV-1 antibody testing by WB (WBAR / HIV-1/-2 Antibody Confirmatory Evaluation, Serum) is necessary for specimens that are reactive by the rapid HIV antibody tests; even if the screening test results are negative.
Result of the confirmatory HIV-1 antibody WB assay is interpreted as positive when at least 2 of the 3 following bands are present: p24, gp41, and gp120/160. A positive HIV-1 antibody WB result with a reactive rapid HIV antibody test result indicates presence of HIV-1 infection, regardless of the HIV-1/-2 antibody screening test result, but it does not indicate the stage of the HIV-1 infection. Positive confirmatory HIV antibody test results are required under laws in many states to be reported to the departments of health of the respective states where the patients reside.
For asymptomatic individuals with reactive rapid HIV test results, negative HIV-1 antibody WB results with either reactive or negative HIV-1/-2 antibody screening test results most likely indicate false-reactive rapid HIV antibody test results. However, a negative HIV-1 antibody WB result does not exclude the possibility of early HIV-1 or HIV-2 infection. If the HIV-1 antibody WB test result is negative, the HIV-2 antibody test by EIA will be performed automatically (at an additional charge).
Indeterminate HIV-1 antibody WB results occur when bands are present but the patterns do not meet the criteria for a positive result. Indeterminate results may indicate a) early, late, or incomplete HIV-1 antibody reactivity, b) presence of HIV-2 antibodies, or c) presence of nonspecific cross-reactive antibodies. For specimens with indeterminate WB results, confirmatory HIV-1 antibody testing by IFA) and HIV-2 antibody testing by EIA will be performed automatically (at additional charges).
Indeterminate WB patterns can be found in up to 15% of persons without evidence of HIV infection. Individuals with persistent, stable, indeterminate HIV-1 antibody WB results but without risk factors should be monitored for 6 months. If no additional WB bands develop during that time, the patient is determined not to be HIV-infected.
An uninterpretable HIV-1 antibody WB result indicates the presence of smear or blotches obscuring proper reading of the WB strip, in the absence of discrete bands. Such findings indicate probable nonspecific binding of antibodies in the patient's serum to the WB strip. For specimens with such uninterpretable WB results, confirmatory HIV-1 antibody test by IFA and HIV-2 antibody testing by EIA will be performed automatically (at additional charges).
The following algorithms are available in Special Instructions:
-HIV Rapid Serologic Testing Follow-up Algorithm-HIV Treatment Monitoring Algorithm
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
The US Association of Public Health Laboratories recommends verification of all positive confirmatory HIV antibody test results prior to the clinical diagnosis of HIV infection. A second serum specimen should be obtained from the patient and submitted for repeat testing to verify all positive confirmatory test results.
Although repeatedly positive confirmatory HIV antibody test results indicates HIV infection, a diagnosis of AIDS can only be made based on the case definition of AIDS established by the CDC.
High-risk individuals with reactive rapid HIV-1 antibody test results but negative HIV-1/-2 antibody screening test results and indeterminate or negative HIV-1 antibody Western blot (WB) results should be retested 1 to 3 months. Repeat testing may be done by a combination of either rapid HIV antibody test with HIV-1 antibody WB or routine HIV-1/-2 antibody screening test with HIV-1 antibody WB.
Positive HIV antibody WB results in infants of < or =18 months of age and born to HIV-infected mothers may indicate passive transfer of maternal HIV antibodies. Serologic tests (screening and confirmatory) for HIV-1/-2 antibodies cannot distinguish between active neonatal HIV infection and passive transfer of maternal HIV antibodies in infants during the postnatal period (up to 18 months of age). Diagnosis of HIV infection in newborns and infants should be made by virologic tests such as detection of HIV RNA (HIVQU / HIV-1 RNA Quantification, Plasma) or HIV proviral DNA (PHIV / HIV-1 Proviral DNA Qualitative Detection by PCR, Blood).
Assay performance characteristics have not been established for the following specimen characteristics:
-Grossly hemolyzed (hemoglobin level of >500 mg/dL)
-Grossly lipemic (triolein level of >3,000 mg/dL)
-Grossly icteric (total bilirubin level of >20 mg/dL)
-Containing particulate matter
-Individuals of <2 years of age
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
See HIV Serologic Interpretive Guide in Special Instructions for further interpretive information.
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Protocols for confirmation of reactive rapid HIV tests. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2004;53:221-222
2. Branson BM, Handsfield HH, Lampe MA: Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings. MMWR Recomm Rep 2006;55:1-17
3. Constantine N: HIV antibody assays May 2006. HIV InSite Knowledge Base (online textbook). Available from URL: http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-00&doc=kb-02-02-01
4. Owen SM, Yang C, Spira T, et al: Alternative algorithms for human immunodeficiency virus infection diagnosis using tests that are licensed in the United States. J Clin Microbiol 2008;46:1588-1595


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Southern Wine & Spirits & Frederick P. Winner Form Strategic Joint Venture in Maryland and D.C.
(Miami, FL – March 23, 2010) - Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. (Southern) and Frederick P. Winner, Ltd., (Winner) — announce the formation of a strategic joint venture in the State of Maryland and Washington, D.C. — The two companies plan to join forces to distribute wine, spirits and non-alcoholic brands in the trading areas. The new companies, Southern / F. P.Winner Wine & Spirits Distributors of Maryland and Southern / F.P. Winner Wine & Spirits Distributors of Washington D.C. will bring enhanced sales and service to the Maryland and D.C. marketplaces.
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Marc Winner, chairman and president of F. P. Winner said, "We are proud to join forces with our old friends at Southern. With our local market knowledge and efficient operations and Southern's state-of-the-art marketing, sales tools and approaches, we believe our suppliers, customers, Southern and Winner alike will reap considerable benefits."
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From speeding Las Vegas attraction 'The Globe of Death' to large tents filled with authentic biker gear, hundreds of people flocked to the Spring Rally in downtown Sparks. Live musical entertainment played throughout the day before bringing things inside the Nugget Celebrity Showroom for headliners The Alan Parson's Project.
Dale Wells and his crew from Pyrotexxx LED's have come to Street Vibrations for about eight years, offering installation of LED lights helping bring more color and flare to motorcycles. Wells said the lights offer a combination of "bling bling" and safety so people "can see the bikes better at night."
Wells said he has spent time at both Spring and Fall rallies and said the two come with some differences.
"I think in the spring we see a lot of the local folks," Wells said. "Then in the fall we get folks from California, Oregon and sometimes Canada. You see a little bit more mixture of people coming from a further distance."
Wells doesn't mind the mix of company at his booth and he always looks forward to having people come up to talk. Whether the conversation is about his lights, or about anything in genera,l he said mingling with the crowd is the best part of the event.
"The think the best part is just the interaction with the people who come out," Wells said. "I meet great people out here and even though they come up from all over the place we have folks here in Reno that we have done work on their bikes and they are bringing us lunch today to feed us. It is really great to meet these people.
"I also get a chance to talk to a lot of vets. I am still in the Army Reserve myself and I am a retired peace officer, so I can talk to law enforcement people as well."
Positive interaction with potential customers and motorcycle enthusiasts was a sentiment shared by custom pinstripe artist Josh, who goes by Striper Josh, of Millers Chop Shop. Striper Josh said being able to be out in the community and not stuck inside the garage is one his family's business has enjoyed for many years.
"So often we are stuck in the garage and building these projects," he said, "And we don't get the exposure to all these people. So that is why it is so important to us to make it out to these events and get the traffic in front of our booth and let people know we are here. It is good to get out here, shake hands and hear from the people what they think about what we have going."
Millers Chop Shop was stationed in Sun Valley for 25 years until recently it made a move to Sparks and is now stationed near Summit Racing on Watson Way. Striper Josh said the major difference he sees in the spring and fall rallies is the type of crowds that attend.
"The difference I would say in the two shows is the rowdiness of the crowd," he said. "I would say in the Fall Rally, the people are here to party a little bit more. These guys (Spring Rally visitors) just come in to ride and shop and stuff like that. The fall crowd seems to party a little bit more."
While most vendors and booths were set up to bring in business, some were simply there for informational and assistance purposes. Jim Kelley, of the Reno-Sparks Chapter of the Christian Motorcyclists Association, said the ministry group has been involved in Street Vibrations since its inception. He said the group's relationship with the event's promoter, Randy Burke, president of Roadshows Inc., has blossomed during the years and now the group plays a vital role throughout the weekend.
"We have helped him do the poker stops and we also help, if a biker goes down, one of our group goes to the hospital with them," Kelley said. "It started out with us buying a booth and when we started running the poker stops for (Burke) he doesn't have to worry about it. It takes the pressure off and the integrity is not questioned, and Randy knows it. We will get together and score the sheets, report them to Randy. That's what we do."
The Street Vibrations Spring Rally was contained to the Nugget's west parking lot for the first time since the Spring Rally's beginning. The fencing and "no colors" policy set up by the Nugget helped support the family aspect of the event, and brought some fringe benefits for vendors.
"It seems to me that it is kind of helping people find us," Striper Josh said, adding that Millers Chop Shop usually sets up in downtown Reno. "The people that come expecting to see us with everything being more concentrated like this is making it easier for those people."
Wells agreed that business was aided being housed inside the fences of the Nugget. He felt the exposure and funneling of visitors boosted the amount of people stopping by.
"I find, as far as business goes, we get a lot more traffic," Wells said of his Pyrotexxx LED's booth. "Based on the fact when we were on the other side of the freeway a lot of people set their day based on if they are going on a run or seeing a concert, so they usually missed us. But now that they have set it all in the confined area, we get to see everybody.
"For myself, and the rest of the vendors out here, it is all about the numbers. The more people you make contact with, the better chances you have for your product to be fruitful for you and your clientele."


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In addition to free seminars and kids' activities, there will be pro staff and manufacturer's representatives in the store to answer questions, give insight into products and provide tips on hunting topics, Dutch Oven cooking and tasting demonstrations, giveaways and numerous conservation partners highlighting their organizations.
According to the Nevada Department of Wildlife's (NDOW) website and annual report completed in February, hunting activities will boost the state's economy by $145 million per year. That doesn't take into account millions of dollars in fishing ($272 million) and wildlife watching ($362 million) that outdoorsmen spend on those activities in Nevada.
Some of the seminar highlights include trophy field care tips by Tim Burnett of SoloHunters TV, hunting dog tactics by SportDog's Gregg Tanner, the importance of life jackets by the National Safe Boating Council's Fred Messmann, backcountry camping secrets by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation's Les Smith, benefits of braided line by Cabela's and Pautzke pro staffer Mike Nielsen and Eagle Lake tips that get proven results by Rick Kennedy of Tightlines Guide Service.
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Perfection Evi
I'll Remember You!!!
Perfection Evi
This is perfect, those eyes...those lips!!!
Dearest Evi,
With every new piece of artwork, I am increasingly amazed, and taken to a place where ELVIS' life lives within you and you always bring HIM to us with your stunning abilities as a great artist of our lifetime, forward into the future you will leave your footprints of HIM.
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Wonderful sketch Evi.
Great sketch Evi real good
Stunning as always Evi. What is unique about your drawings and paintings is you always get his eyes perfect. Most other artists while they do some beautiful work never seem to get his eyes right. You always get them right and that gives your work a warmth and life that brings Elvis alive in your art. Keep up the great work. Im so looking forward to what new gems you create in 2013.
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Great work! Both are gorgeous, the one in the openingpost and the one with the puppy!


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Behind a dominating performance on the boards on both ends of the court that saw Sparks outrebound the Lakers 33-14, including 15 offensive boards, the Maroon and Gold controlled the game from the opening tip for a decisive 63-42 home victory.
"This was a step in the right direction," Schreiber said. "Tonight we saw one of the missing pieces that hasn't been there consistently. A lot our success tonight was just on second effort and the board presence around the glass with second shots. We know we can shoot the ball well, and now hopefully we can put those two things together, because that will be key for us."
Sparks (16-8, 11-2 MRL) started the game with three bigs on the court in seniors Fernando Borja, D.J. Devine and Geo Vazquez. Immediately their presence was felt.
Over the opening seven minutes of the contest, the Railroaders grabbed 12 rebounds in comparison to North Tahoe's three. The Lakers missed their first five shots of the game and Sparks grabbed each defensive rebound, not allowing the visitors any easy buckets. The Railroaders also went to work on the offensive glass as they converted a handful of easy put-backs en route to a 17-0 edge. North Tahoe did not score its first points of the game until the 1:09 mark as the Railroaders led 17-4 at the end of one.
Sparks put the same method to work to start the second quarter as Devine and Adam Morgan both grabbed a board around the offensive rim for a pair of putbacks. Senior Keiffer Putman then drained a wide-open 3-pointer from the top of the key. Two more buckets rounded out an 11-2 run for the Railroaders as they widened the gap to 28-6 at the midway point of the second quarter. North Tahoe did score the final eight points of the first half to bring the margin to 28-14 at halftime.
Out of the break, Sparks grabbed more offensive boards and got moere points in the paint as it used a 19-7 run to open the second half. That included a stretch of nine unanswered. The spurt put the hosts on top 47-23 with a minute to play in the third quarter. A pair of Lakers' free throws followed by a trade of threes left the scoreboard reading 50-26 with a quarter remaining.
The game would close with the sides exchanging seven straight triples as Sparks went on to coast to the victory.
Devine led the winning effort for the Railroaders, posting a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds. Putman tallied 11 points on the night, while Morgan and Vasquez both chipped in with eight points apiece. The Railroaders scored 36 points in the paint.
Sparks will now get set to hit the road for a contest Friday at South Tahoe in a game that will determine the third and fourth seed for the playoffs. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. Schreiber said he is hoping to see more of the same from his team against the Vikings.
"Our second effort and those second chances are huge, especially as we come down this home stretch," he said. "We knew we had that ability. With our primary scoring and hopefully our cleaning up on the glass, I think we have a prescription that's going to be pretty tough."
The Lady Railroaders also were victorious Tuesday evening, barely holding on for a 29-28 decision over North Tahoe.
After the Lakers opened the initial scoring with a free throw, Sparks scored 14 of the next 16 points to seize a 14-3 lead at the end of the first quarter. The Railroaders would maintain their double-digit lead into the intermission with the score at 22-12.
A slow third quarter for the Railroaders could have proved fatal as the home team managed just three points, but the visitors did not fare much better with four points. That left the score 25-16 with eight minutes to play.
An exchange of layups kept the margin at nine points with the score at 27-18 with 6:08 to play, put a frantic comeback effort by the Lakers quickly closed the gap.
North Tahoe forced five consecutive turnovers as it strung together a 10-2 run over the next five minutes. With a minute left and just one-point separating the two teams, neither side was able to find the bucket as Sparks held on for the win.
While the Railroaders did not fill up the stat sheet, as the highest scorers were Roxie Guadron and Maricar Diaz with six points each, Sparks had eight different players chip in for the victory.
"That's what we've been working on this year. It wasn't fair for us to put the whole burden on one person's shoulders," Sparks coach Frank Avilla said. "So we have been trying to create more movement and more shots, and the kids have been buying in. I would have liked to see more points, but it was a complete effort. We're still getting better."
Sparks (3-13, 3-6) will visit South Tahoe on Friday at 6 p.m.


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WE TAKE RESERVATIONS EVERYDAY OF THE YEAR!!! (just not on-line) Please call our winter number 949-697-6151 prior to March or leave us a message at the campground: 435-784-3184 or 800-562-3254.
This small, off-the-beaten-path campground shaded by giant cottonwoods offers striking views of Lake Flaming Gorge 6 miles away and of the surrounding mountains and bluffs. KOA's campsites spread out among flower gardens and lush lawns, an oasis in a high desert setting. Anglers hook mackinaw, smallmouth bass, kokanee salmon and trout from the waters of the 91-mile lake. Fly-fish the Green River or take a family-friendly float trip. The Flaming Gorge KOA hosts many fun family activities. Show off your hidden skills in the cow-pie-tossing contest, Western line dancing (with lessons!), pie- and bean-eating contests and karaoke. Please ask us for the activities schedule.
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A brief sketch in colored pencil.
Color illustration of Conan in front of the Texas flag, inspired by the famous Michael Jordan photo.
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Music Featured on the November 29 edition of "Anything Goes" hosted by Rich Samuels
Tuesday, 27 November 2012 | Rich Samuels
5:09 am James Ehnes (violin) and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bramwell Tovey perform the Violin Concerto in D Op. 35 (1047) by Wric Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957).
5:35 am Christine and Michelle Naughton (violins) play Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos K. 448.
5:56 am Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (violin) and Jeffrey Sykes (piano) perform Manuel Ponce's "Estrelita"
6:08 Florencio Anenjo's "A Diptych of Lord dunsany's Tales" performed by the Bulgarian Philharmonic conducted by Kirk Trevor.
6:37 "The Chairman Dances – Foxtrot for Orchestra" of John Adams (b. 1947) performed by the Baltimore Symphony conducted by David Zinman.
6:50 Laura Pinto, accompanied by Codrut Birsan, sings the aria "O mio babbino caro" from Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi.
6:52 Kira Dils-deSurra, accompanied by Codrut Birsan, sings "Va! Laisse couler mes larmes" from "Werther" by Jules Massenet.
6:55 Benjamin Des Los Monteros, accompanied by Codrut Birsan, sings "Che gelida manina" from "La bohème" by Giacomo Puccini.
7:08 The Kronos Quartet performs "Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover", composed in 1993 by Michael Daugherty (b. 1954).
7:19 An interview with Scott Tegge and Paul Von Hoff of the Gaudete Brass discussing their new CD on the Cedille label, "Chicago Moves". Featured pieces are John Woodward's "Gaudete", Stacy Garrop's "Helios" and David Sampson's "Chicago Moves".
7:55 "Desi" by Michael Daugherty performed by The Baltimore Symphony conducted by David Zinman