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\section{Introduction}

The purpose of this note is to prove the following generalization of the famous
theorem of Cattani, Deligne, and Kaplan \cite{CDK}.

\begin{thm} \label{thm:main}
Let $S$ be a Zariski-open subset of a complex manifold $\bar{S}$, and let $\mathscr{V}$ be a
variation of mixed Hodge structure on $S$. Suppose that $\mathscr{V}$ is defined over $\mathbb{Z}$,
graded polarized, and admissible with respect to $\bar{S}$. Let $\Hdg(\mathscr{V})$ denote the
locus of Hodge classes in $\mathscr{V}$.  Then each component of $\Hdg(\mathscr{V})$ extends to an
analytic space, finite and proper over $\bar{S}$.
\end{thm}

As in the original paper, Chow's theorem implies that the locus of Hodge classes
consists of algebraic varieties if $S$ is algebraic.

\begin{cor}
In the situation of Theorem~\ref{thm:main}, suppose that $S$ is quasi-projective.
Then each component of $\Hdg(\mathscr{V})$ is a quasi-projective algebraic variety.
\end{cor}

We remind the reader of a few basic definitions. Given a mixed Hodge structure $V$
defined over $\mathbb{Z}$, a \define{Hodge class} in $V$ is an element of $V_{\ZZ} \cap W_0 V_{\CC}
\cap F^0 V_{\CC}$, or equivalently, a morphism of mixed Hodge structures $\mathbb{Z}(0) \to V$. Given a
variation of mixed Hodge structure $\mathscr{V}$ on a complex manifold $S$, let $\shV_{\ZZ}$ denote the
underlying integral local system. Its \'etal\'e space $T(\shV_{\ZZ})$ is a covering space
of $S$ with countably many connected components; it naturally embeds into the
holomorphic vector bundle $E(\shV_{\shO})$. The \define{locus of Hodge classes} in $\mathscr{V}$ can then be
described as the intersection
\[
	\Hdg(\mathscr{V}) = T(\shV_{\ZZ}) \cap E \bigl( F^0 \shV_{\shO} \bigr) \cap E \bigl( W_0 \shV_{\shO} \bigr).
\]

We deduce Theorem~\ref{thm:main} from the original result by Cattani, Deligne, and
Kaplan with the help of the following difficult theorem; it is the main result of
\cite{BP}, and can also be proved by the methods of \cite{Schnell-Neron}. (A similar
result has also been announced by Kato, Nakayama, and Usui in \cite{KNU-mod}.) Either
proof relies on the $\SL(2)$-orbit theorem of Kato, Nakayama, and Usui \cite{KNU}.

\begin{thm} \label{thm:BP}
Let $\nu$ be an admissible higher normal function on $S$, that is, an admissible
extension of $\mathbb{Z}(0)$ by a polarized variation of Hodge structure of
negative weight.
Let $Z(\nu)=\{s\in S: \nu(s)=0\}$ denote the zero locus of
$\nu$. (C.f. the discussion at the beginning of Section~\ref{s.LocusOfHodge}.)
Then the closure of $Z(\nu)$ in $\bar{S}$ is an analytic subset.
\end{thm}

Note that this result includes the case of classical normal functions (where the
Hodge structure has weight $-1$).  Theorem~\ref{thm:BP} in itself is most interesting
when $S$ is a quasi-projective complex manifold; we may then take $\bar{S}$ to be any
smooth projective compactification, since the notion of admissibility is independent
of the particular choice.

\begin{cor} \label{cor:HNF}
Suppose that $\nu$ is an admissible higher normal function on $S$, that is, an extension of
$\mathbb{Z}(0)$ by a polarized variation of Hodge structure of negative weight. Then the
zero locus $Z(\nu)$ is an algebraic subset of $S$.
\end{cor}

One source for higher normal functions is through families of higher Chow
cycles. Let $\pi \colon X \to S$ be a family of complex projective manifolds with $S$
smooth. Then the regulator map from motivic cohomology $H_{\mathcal{M}}^p \bigl( X, \mathbb{Z}(q)
\bigr) \simeq \CH^q(X, 2q-p)$ to Deligne cohomology $H_{\mathcal{D}}^p \bigl( X, \mathbb{Z}(q) \bigr)$
induces a homomorphism
\[
	\CH^q(X, 2q-p) \otimes \mathbb{Q} \to \bigoplus_{k \in \mathbb{Z}}
		\Ext_{\MHM(S)}^{p-k} \bigl( \mathbb{Q}(0), R^k \pi_{\ast} \mathbb{Q}(q) \bigr),
\]
using the decomposition theorem; $\MHM(S)$ is the category of mixed Hodge
modules on $S$. In particular, a higher Chow cycle on $X$ determines an element in
$\Ext_{\MHM(S)}^1 \bigl( \mathbb{Q}, R^{p-1} \pi_{\ast} \mathbb{Q}(q) \bigr)$; some multiple is an
admissible higher normal function for the variation of Hodge structure $R^{p-1} \pi_{\ast}
\mathbb{Z}(q)$ of weight $p-2q-1 < 0$.

The same methods can be used to describe the locus of points $s \in S$ where $V_s$
splits over $\mathbb{Z}$ (we say that a mixed Hodge structure $V$ \define{splits}
over $\mathbb{Z}$ if $V \simeq \bigoplus_m \mathit{Gr}_m^W V$ in $\mathrm{MHS}$).

\begin{thm} \label{thm:split}
Let $\mathscr{V}$ be an admissible variation of mixed Hodge structure on $S$. Then the set
of points $s \in S$ where the mixed Hodge structure $V_s$ splits over $\mathbb{Z}$ is an
algebraic subset of $S$.
\end{thm}

Since $V_s$ splits over $\mathbb{Z}$ iff there is a Hodge class in $\End(V_s)$ that induces
a splitting of the underlying integral lattice, this result may also be viewed as a
special case of Theorem~\ref{thm:main}.

\section{Admissibility}

Let $\mathscr{V}$ be a variation of $\mathbb{Z}$-mixed Hodge structure on a Zariski-open subset $S$
of a complex manifold $\bar{S}$. We call $\mathscr{V}$ \define{admissible with respect to $\bar{S}$} if
$\mathscr{V} \otimes \mathbb{Q}$ is admissible in the sense of Kashiwara \cite{Kashiwara} (where
admissibility is defined by a curve test). It is clear from this definition that
admissibility is preserved under holomorphic maps $f \colon \bar{S}' \to \bar{S}$ with the
property that $f^{-1}(S)$ is dense in $\bar{S}'$. Moreover, duals and tensor products of admissible
variations of mixed Hodge structure are again admissible; this is proved in the
appendix to \cite{SZ}.

By work of Saito \cite{Saito-ANF}, admissibility can also be phrased in terms of
mixed Hodge modules: $\mathscr{V} \otimes \mathbb{Q}$ defines a mixed Hodge module on $S$, and is
admissible if and only if that mixed Hodge module can be extended to $\bar{S}$.

\section{The locus of Hodge classes}
\label{s.LocusOfHodge}

We now turn to the proof of Theorem~\ref{thm:main}. Throughout, we let $\mathscr{V}$ be a
variation of mixed Hodge structure over $S$, admissible with respect to $\bar{S}$. We
assume that $\mathscr{V}$ is graded polarized, and that the local systems $W_m \mathscr{V}$ making
up the weight filtration are defined over $\mathbb{Z}$, with $\mathit{Gr}_m^W \mathscr{V}$ torsion free.

To begin with, we can replace $\mathscr{V}$ by $W_0 \mathscr{V}$, and assume without loss of
generality that $\mathscr{V}$ is of weight $\leq 0$. We then have
\[
	\Hdg(\mathscr{V}) = T(\shV_{\ZZ}) \cap E(F^0 \shV_{\shO}).
\]

The next step is to prove a more general version of Theorem~\ref{thm:BP}. Recall that
a \define{generalized normal function} $\nu$ is an extension, in the category of
variations of mixed Hodge structure, of $\mathbb{Z}(0)$ by a variation of mixed Hodge
structure $\mathscr{H}$, all of whose weights are $\leq -1$.  It is said to be
\define{admissible} if the corresponding variation is admissible. At each point $s
\in S$, the extension determines a point $\nu(s) \in \Ext_{\mathrm{MHS}}^1 \bigl( \mathbb{Z}(0), H_s
\bigr)$; the \define{zero locus} $Z(\nu)$ of the generalized normal function is by
definition the set of points where $\nu(s) = 0$. We let
\[
	\NF(S, \mathscr{H}) = \Ext_{\mathrm{VMHS}(S)}^1 \bigl( \mathbb{Z}(0), \mathscr{H} \bigr)
\]
denote the group of generalized normal functions.

\begin{prop} \label{prop:BPgen}
Let $\nu$ be an admissible generalized normal function on $S$.  Then the
closure of $Z(\nu)$ in $\bar{S}$ is an analytic subset.
\end{prop}

\begin{proof}
Let $\mathscr{V}$ be the corresponding admissible variation of mixed Hodge structure, and
$\mathscr{H} = W_{-1} \mathscr{V}$. If $\mathscr{H}$ is pure, then the result follows from
Theorem~\ref{thm:BP}. Otherwise, we let $m \leq -1$ be the smallest integer for which $\mathit{Gr}_m^W \mathscr{V}
\neq 0$. Define $\mathscr{V}' = \mathscr{V} / W_m \mathscr{V}$, and let $\nu_0$ be the corresponding
generalized normal function induced on $\mathscr{V}'$ by $\nu$. Note that we have $Z(\nu) \subseteq Z(\nu_0)$.

Let $S_0$ denote the regular locus of an irreducible component of $Z(\nu_0)$. By induction, we know that the
closure of $S_0$ inside of $\bar{S}$ is analytic; let $\pi \colon \bar{S}_0 \to \bar{S}$ be a
resolution of singularities of the closure that is an isomorphism over $S_0$. Since
$\pi$ is proper, we are allowed to replace $\bar{S}$ by $\bar{S}_0$ and $\nu$ by its pullback
to $S_0$; we may therefore assume from the beginning that $\nu_0 = 0$. Now the
exact sequence
\begin{diagram}
0 &\rTo& \NF \bigl( S, W_m \mathscr{H} \bigr) &\rTo& \NF(S, \mathscr{H}) &\rTo&
	\NF \bigl( S, \mathscr{H} / W_m \mathscr{H} \bigr)
\end{diagram}
shows that $\nu$ induces a generalized normal function $\nu' \in \NF \bigl( S, W_m
\mathscr{H} \bigr)$. Since $W_m \mathscr{H}$ is pure of weight $m$, we conclude from
Theorem~\ref{thm:BP} that $Z(\nu')$ has an analytic closure inside $\bar{S}$; but clearly
$Z(\nu) = Z(\nu')$, and so the assertion follows.
\end{proof}

We are now ready to prove Theorem~\ref{thm:main} in general.
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem~\ref{thm:main}]
Let $\mathscr{V}$ be the admissible variation of mixed Hodge structure; as explained above,
we may suppose that it has weights $\leq 0$. For any point $s \in S$, let $V_s$ be
the corresponding mixed Hodge structure; then we have an exact sequence
\begin{equation} \label{eq:Hdg}
\begin{diagram}
0 &\rTo& \Hdg(V_s) &\rTo& \Hdg \bigl( \mathit{Gr}_0^W V_s \bigr) &\rTo&
	\Ext_{\mathrm{MHS}}^1 \bigl( \mathbb{Z}(0), W_{-1} V_s \bigr).
\end{diagram}
\end{equation}
It follows that the locus of Hodge classes for $\mathscr{V}$ is embedded into that for
$\mathit{Gr}_0^W \mathscr{V}$. Let $Z$ be an irreducible component of $\Hdg(\mathscr{V})$, and let $Y$ be
the irreducible component of $\Hdg \bigl( \mathit{Gr}_0^W \mathscr{V} \bigr)$ containing $Z$.
By the theorem of Cattani, Deligne, and Kaplan \cite{CDK}, $Y$ can be extended to an analytic space $\bar{Y}$
that is proper and finite over $\bar{S}$. Let $\mu \colon \bar{Y}' \to \bar{Y}$ be a resolution
of singularities of the analytic space $\bar{Y}$
and denote
by $\mathscr{V}'$ the pullback of $\mathscr{V}$ to $Y$.

By construction, we have a section $\mathbb{Z}(0) \to \mathit{Gr}_0^W \mathscr{V}'$. It induces
a generalized normal function $\nu' \in \NF(Y, \mathscr{H}')$, where $\mathscr{H}' = W_{-1} \mathscr{V}'$.
Moreover, it is clear from \eqref{eq:Hdg} that $Z = Z(\nu')$. Since $\nu'$
is easily seen to be admissible with respect to $\bar{Y}'$, we conclude from
Proposition~\ref{prop:BPgen} that the closure of $Z(\nu')$ in $\bar{Y}'$ is analytic.
Because $\mu$ is proper, it follows that $Z$ has an analytic closure inside of $\bar{Y}$;
this completes the proof.
\end{proof}

\section{The split locus}

The proof of Theorem~\ref{thm:split} is similar to that of Theorem~\ref{thm:main}.
\begin{proof}
  It suffices to prove the statement with coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}$. So
  let $\mathscr{V}$ be an admissible variation of mixed Hodge structure on
  $S$, where $S$ is Zariski-open in a complex manifold $\bar{S}$. Let $m$
  be the largest integer for which $\mathit{Gr}_m^W \mathscr{V} \neq 0$. By
  induction, we know that the locus of points $s \in S$ where $W_{m-1}
  V_s$ splits over $\mathbb{Q}$ has an analytic closure inside of
  $\bar{S}$. Arguing as before, we may therefore assume from the beginning
  that $W_{m-1} \mathscr{V}$ is split. Now $\mathscr{V}$ determines an element of
\begin{align*}
	\Ext_{\mathrm{VMHS}(S)}^1 \bigl( \mathit{Gr}_m^W \mathscr{V}, W_{m-1} \mathscr{V} \bigr)
		&\simeq \bigoplus_{k < m}
		\Ext_{\mathrm{VMHS}(S)}^1 \bigl( \mathit{Gr}_m^W \mathscr{V}, \mathit{Gr}_k^W \mathscr{V} \bigr) \\
		&\simeq \bigoplus_{k < m}
		\Ext_{\mathrm{VMHS}(S)}^1 \bigl( \mathbb{Q}(0), (\mathit{Gr}_m^W \mathscr{V})^{\vee} \otimes \mathit{Gr}_k^W \mathscr{V} \bigr).
\end{align*}
Since admissibility is preserved under tensor products, the problem is reduced to the
case of admissible higher normal functions; applying Theorem~\ref{thm:BP} completes
the proof.
\end{proof}

\begin{bibsection}
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\end{bibsection}

\end{document}

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Partners from various nationalities enjoy a taste of Nigeria's diverse cultural heritage at opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony at every BLW international gathering is one to look out for, a most cherished time of celebration for delegates. On the first night of the International Partners' Conference, LoveWorld citizens of various earthly nationalities were treated to a unique taste of Nigeria's diverse cultural heritage.
Leading up to the multicultural dance piece, marked with eclectic moves, spoken word artistes spoke to partners on behalf of the continents they impacted. With every word, delegates had pictures painted of the impact of their participation in the Gospel around the world, being inspired to do much more.
Relive the experience with the featured video above, and listen to the highly esteemed IPPC Chairman, Pastor Joy Amenkhienan, as she welcomed the global delegation to the LoveWorld Convocation Arena in Lagos, Nigeria.


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5 LGBT Sportspeople Who Won More Than Medals
Almost all of us have spent a larger part of our childhood and adolescence looking up to sportspeople from track, field, arena or even water. We learnt to follow them, to know their numbers and to rejoice in their achievements as a part of our growing up.
Before we had our own hopes, dreams and aspirations, we could feel the same kind of exhilaration or disappointment through their achievements or failures, even though we didn't actually understand what victory or defeat meant.
Somewhere between all these, these people became more than just icons for us and transcended to being role models, heroes – shapes in which we moulded our own selves. So when we saw them take the steps out of the closet, it was a big assurance for the LGBT community in a way to feel encouraged and inspired enough to follow them down that road.
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Here are 5 LGBT Sportspeople who took pride in their rainbow!
Jason Paul Collins is an American retired professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After the 2012–13 NBA season concluded, in the cover story of the May 6, 2013 issue of Sports Illustrated, he came out of the closet as gay, becoming the first active male sportsperson from one of the four major North American professional team sports to publicly do so.
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Now retired, he became an ambassador for LGBT people's acceptance in team and individual sports and involves himself in various events related to the same.
"I'm a veteran, and I've earned the right to be heard. I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones. I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right."
Australian swimmer Ian James Thorpe is not only the most successful Olympian from his own country, but also one of the best and most popular ones of all times. In every Olympics, there are a couple of athletes who stand out overshadowing the others and kind of own the Games for that year. The 2000 Summer Olympics belonged to Thorpe, where he became the most successful athlete with 3 gold and 2 silver medals. He continued his streak with six gold medals in one World Championship the following year.
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He came out in 2014 as gay over an interview after years of denying the same upon questioning. He even mentioned specifically in his autobiography that he was straight and exclusively attracted to women. So it raised a question among many that whether being an LGBT person was still a matter of stigma in Australia that a legendary personality like him had to live a lie for so long.
NICOLA ADAMS
British professional boxer created history when she won the first gold medal in the first ever women's boxing event to be held in Olympics in the 2012 Games. She retained her title in the flyweight category in 2016 Olympics, along with sweeping the Commonwealth Games and European Games. Being openly a bisexual, she broke the path by miles becoming the first LGBT athlete to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
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Completely uninhibited and non-secretive about herself and her sexuality, she is a prominent and inspiring figure in the LGBT community of the sports arena.
STEVEN DAVIES
Young English cricketer Steven Davies decided to get rid of the burden of hiding the truth about his sexuality from his teammates and came out just before the Ashes Series of 2011. In an interview with The Telegraph, UK, he admitted that it was getting extremely difficult to keep on lying and that it would have affected his off-field bonding with the boys. But with enough help and mentoring from Coach Andy Flower and Captain Andrew Strauss, he finally took the step.
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His teammates were absolutely supportive of him, but he admitted to have his nerves wrecked before doing it, even though it felt like the right thing to do.
"It's the biggest decision I've had to face, and by far the toughest – bigger even than facing Brett Lee in the middle."
Though we are going back a few years, such mentions are necessary to know that coming out of sportspeople is not entirely a recent thing, even though majorly. Martina Navratilova is one of the all-time great tennis players, a former World No. 1 and holder of the record of the most number of Major titles (both men and women) in the open era.
In 1981, shortly after becoming a United States citizen (previously Czech), Navratilova gave an interview to New York Daily News, coming out as bisexual, but has ever since identified as a lesbian. On September 6, 2014, Navratilova proposed to her long-time girlfriend Julia Lemigova at the US Open. They married in New York on December 15, 2014.
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As we see all these sportspeople and many more coming out and yet going on with their amazing feats and achievements, we know that it wouldn't have been possible without the support of peers, sports authorities and ardent fans. But like many other burning social issues, this particular situation is also trapped in a very medieval mindset in India.
An Olympian from Tamil Nadu, Santhi Soundararajan had her privates were examined, and her gender questioned in 2006. In the end, she was labelled as a "man" and stripped off the 800 metre silver medal which she had won at the Asian Games in Doha. She was banned from active professional participation in her sport's events and all her achievements were struck off.
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However, in 2016, after a whole decade, she been appointed as an athletic trainer in a permanent capacity with the Sports Development Authority of her state, which the authorities said was an effort to restore the dignity of a Tamil sportswoman. Arrangements were also being made to get in touch with Indian Olympic Association and Sports Authority of India to take up her case at the Court of Arbitration: a step towards reclamation of her medals.
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Speaking at CAST 2016: Why Would You Want to Do Such a Thing?
Imagine you are minding your own business and suddenly find yourself exposed to a huge group of unknown animals. They all stare at you. You are not sure if they are hostile (or even want to eat you) and there is no tree in sight to climb. It makes you very uneasy.
This is how your brain might interpret the situation of being up on stage shortly before starting a public speech or a presentation. Why would anyone in her/his right mind engage in such behaviour deliberately? What's to gain?
Becoming a public speaker is an immensely rewarding process and the Association for Software Testing offers the perfect platform for you with its annual conference, CAST. While preparing for your session, you'll realize that you are going deeper and learning the topic more than most. Conference preparation is a time to immerse yourself in whatever you are interested in, grow your knowledge, and learn how to share it.
Not only that, but you will also be happy to see that your level of interaction with fellow testers increases. People will want to talk to you. They will share their experiences and knowledge with you. Your professional life will become richer.
The context-driven testing community is a splendid place to start a speaker's career because there are so many opportunities to be coached and get help. I'd like to point to our wonderful partners, Speak Easy,where you can get your own mentor for your first public appearance. Or how about reaching out directly to one of the speakers you liked listening to?
We are looking for a diverse set of speakers, to achieve diversity of thought and exchange of ideas, with a good mix between seasoned folks and people who will be speaking for their first time. We want a variety of backgrounds, and we want CAST to be lively and thought-provoking. If you have a special story to tell, we want to hear about it.
This year's conference theme is "Testing: Software Development Catalyst". We are interested in your stories about how you made a difference in your software development project. How did you change the perception that testing is only the necessary evil to be done at the end of the project? How did you influence your team to develop a broader mental model of what testing can be? You can find more details on the conference theme here.
Why not start now? Sketch your session, review and refine it, and then submit here.
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Solar activity drops to 100-year low, puzzling scientists
Predictions that 2013 would see an upsurge in solar activity and geomagnetic storms disrupting power grids and communications systems have proved to be a false alarm. Instead, the current peak in the solar cycle is the weakest for a century.
Subdued solar activity has prompted controversial comparisons with the Maunder Minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, when a prolonged absence of sunspots and other indicators of solar activity coincided with the coldest period in the last millennium.
The comparisons have sparked a furious exchange of views between observers who believe the planet could be on the brink of another period of cooling, and scientists who insist there is no evidence that temperatures are about to fall. In all fairness, Russian scientists have warned over a decade ago that the Earth will enter a mini ice age period.
New Scientist magazine blasted those who predicted a mini ice age, opening a recent article on the surprising lack of sunspots this year with the bold declaration: "Those hoping that the sun could save us from climate change look set for disappointment".
"The recent lapse in solar activity is not the beginning of a decades-long absence of sunspots, a dip that might have cooled the climate. Instead it represents a shorter, less pronounced downturn that happens every century or so," ("Sun's quiet spell not the start of a mini ice age" July 12).
The unusually low number of sunspots in recent years "is not an indication that we are going into a Maunder Minimum" according to Giuliana DeToma, a solar scientist at the High Altitude Observatory in Colorado.
But DeToma admitted "we will do not know how or why the Maunder Minimum started, so we cannot predict the next one."
Many solar experts think the downturn is linked a different phenomenon, the Gleissberg cycle, which predicts a period of weaker solar activity every century or so. If that turns out to be true, the sun could remain unusually quiet through the middle of the 2020s.
But since the scientists still do not understand why the Gleissberg cycle takes place, the evidence is inconclusive. The bottom line is that the sun has gone unusually quiet and no one really knows why or how it will last.
Counting sunspots
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), when billions of tonnes of solar plasma erupt from the surface of the sun and are flung out into space at speeds up to 3,000 kilometres per second, pose the biggest risk to power grids and communications systems.
Sunspots are less dramatic, but because they are easy to count and closely correlated with flares, mass ejections and other indications of solar activity, astronomers and scientists have used them for centuries to monitor variations in the sun's activity.
Careful observation has revealed the number of sunspots rises and falls in a regular cycle that repeats every 11 years.
Variations in the amount of heat and light reaching the planet's surface as a result of the cycle are tiny. Total solar output reaching the surface varies by just 1.3 Watts per square metre (0.1 percent) between the maximum and minimum phases of the cycle.
Even this variation has profound impacts on climate and weather. Rainfall, cloud formation and river run-off are all strongly correlated with the sun's 11-year cycle.
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5 COVID-19 Charts That Democrats Definitely Don't Want You To See by Tyler Durden Wed, 08/26/2020 – 19:45 Amid his confirmation that he "shut the nation down" if scientists told him too, Joe Biden explained just what the Trump admin had got wrong (and how to 'fix' it)… "In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus." Well the good news is… as the following five charts from John Merline's Issues & Insights blog show, the US is 'beating' the virus… If the Democratic National Convention made anything clear, it is that Democrats are entirely invested in making the coronavirus pandemic look worse than it is in the United States. Almost every speaker decried the response and blamed President Donald Trump...
Maybe this poor kid will be the hero and the turning point.
After Kenosha — Divided We Stand Date: August 26, 2020Author: Tom Luongo0 CommentsTweet It would always come to this. At some point there would be a reckoning for BLM and Antifa. The shootings in Kenosha, WI are a dividing line for America. This is the moment where normal people finally said, "Enough. There will be consequences. " This is a war between radicalized lunatics bathed in unquenchable envy and self-pity and those who refuse to act like victims. But they are victims. All of us are. On both sides of the divide. We are victims of a vicious program to divide and conquer the U.S. through a culture war designed to dehumanize each other. We fight among ourselves over scraps while the people who manipulated events to this point walk away laughing at the destruction. They want the violence. They love it. They relish it. It brings them power and prestige. To maintain their power, as...
This is quite stunning. Cross New Zealand off the list of escape routes.
Things just do not add up. What does she know? Or is she just nuts? How do you expose a dictator, make them act like one. pic.twitter.com/xYA9oaCIVb— reddpill (@_reddpill) August 12, 2020 How do you expose a dictator, make them act like one. pic.twitter.com/xYA9oaCIVb— reddpill (@_reddpill) August 12,...
How long would you keep your kid in this school?
School District Making Parents Sign Waiver Agreeing Not To Monitor Virtual Instruction ByEmily Zanotti•Aug 20, 2020 DailyWire.com• A school district in Tennessee is asking parents to sign a form agreeing not to monitor their children's virtual classrooms over concerns that "non-student observers" could overhear confidential information. The form, a copy of which was sent to the Tennessee Star, reads: "RCS strives to present these opportunities in a secure format that protects student privacy to the greatest extent possible, however, because these meetings will occur virtually RCS is limited in its ability to fully control certain factors such as non-student observers that may be present in the home of a student participating in the virtual meeting." The agreement goes on to "strongly discourage" "non-student observation of online meetings due to the potential of...
Here's a question I've yet to hear anyone ask: Why do these "peaceful" protests take place at night?
Could it be be that evil loves the darkness and fears the LIGHT? "Wake Up Motherf**ker, Wake Up!" BLM Idles Through Portland Neighborhood With Bullhorn by Tyler Durden Fri, 08/21/2020 – 10:20 Residents of an upscale Portland neighborhood were treated to some late night entertainment on Thursday, as roughly 100 protesters idled down the street blaring a truck horn and chanting "Wake up motherfucker, wake up!" through a bullhorn. (h/t @The_Real_Fly) As if this wasn't 'helpful' enough for the Biden campaign, at one point a woman on the bullhorn says "Yes, I know Joe Biden fucking sucks, but vote for him please." George Soros clearly had nothing to do with this one… Continuing along with footage from roving journalist Brendan Gutenschwager (who covered the Trump rally in Yuma, AZ on Tuesday and then drove through California...
Cheating -and that's just it.
This GAB is GREAT news.
When will the American people realize that the biggest threat to American freedom is not from without but from within its very own walls, where it has been prominently residing for the last 112 years…
This is a really good question.
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Books & Journals » Studies in the Philosophy of Healing by Boger C.M. » HOMOEOPATHIC VIEWPOINT IN CANCER
HOMOEOPATHIC VIEWPOINT IN CANCER
by C.M. Boger
In cancer cases, from the beginning there is the most urgent necessity to choose with the greatest conscientiousness and care the most fitting from the following recommended homeopathy remedies….
In common with most homoeopathic physicians, I have seen a few almost unbelievable cancer cures from the internal use of our remedies. Almost any remedy has occasionally cured, when it was in fact solely prescribed upon some special or prominent indication but happened also to have the general symptoms which corresponded to the life history of the patient, hence corresponding accurately and in its entirety to the disease picture. This was, of course, done in reverse, therefore the cure was a rare occurrence.
Boenninghausen in his Aphorisms of Hippocrates, 5-54, page 327, stresses the correct method where he substantially and clearly says: Swelling with induration of the os uteri is always dangerous and easily terminates in malignant uterine cancer. Only in the beginning, by means of the accurately discerned, not local, but general symptom complete cure be prognosticated. If once fully developed ichorous pus has appeared, there is little or no hope. From the beginning there is the most urgent necessity to choose with the greatest conscientiousness and care the most fitting from the following recommended remedies, where with my colleagues and myself have always succeeded in averting the threatened danger before it had reached an incurable stage: Arsenicum, Aurum, Belladonna, Carbo animalis, China, Clem., Ferrum, Kreosotum, Lachesis, Mag., Murex, Mercurius, Platina, Pulsatilla, Sabi., Sarsaparilla, Sec-c., Sepia, and Thuja.
My own experience have been as follows: A middle aged woman subject to frequent aphthae showed a ragged, serpiginous, rapidly advancing cancerous ulcer of the inside of the lower lip penetrating almost to the outer skin. The main ulcer was large as a cent with a deep fissure running down toward the chin and there were already several metastatic ulcers on the soft palate. She had wandering, shooting pains through the body that left soreness behind. Milk left a sour taste and she was indolent, fat and not very clean. A dose of Kali bichromicum MM, repeated in sixty days, made a complete cure.
Radical cures in recurrences after operation have been few and far between but Nitric acid given on the usual indication has cured several times, so has Silica. After operations done early or on what is usually on suspicion only, when new mammary nodules have appeared after several years, Bellis perennis has usually done the trick. As you know these are very anxious moments for the patient and she awaits the result of the prescriptions with great rapidity.
In the toxic crisis which so much resemble the onset of low types of erysipelas, Bellis is my sheet anchor also. It does not cure, but it reduces the tendency to haemorrhage to almost nil, makes a light affair of the toxic attack and lengthens the interval between attacks very greatly. Bellis comes to my mind as a greater and deeper Arnica-the rest of the picture you will know without being told. The prominent remedies that have palliated incurable cases for me are especially Calcarea carbonica for phlegmasia alba-dolens like attacks.
Tellurium for the vile odor and purpura figurata, sometimes present, and above all Opium in very high potency when the patient looks prematurely old, brownish and withered. Sabal serrulata controls the stinging pains of cancer of the urinary tract and prolongs life to great lengths, so much so that a cure seems almost in sight.
The Homoeopathic Viewpoint in Cancer (1931) Radical cures of cancer in recurrences after operation have been few and far between, but Nitric acid given on the usual indications has cured several times, so has Silica. ......
Surgery, X-rays, Radium in Treatment of Cancer Edward Henry S. in his book Cancer its cause, prevention & cure gave his opinion about Surgery, x-rays, Radium in Treatment of Cancer. He wrote that The mortality associated with cancer cannot be prevented by local cancer growth ablations.......
Cancer Detail description of the tissue salt Cancerbiochemic remedy by E.P. Anshutz in his book A Guide to Twelve Tissue Remedies of Biochemistry, published in 1909..........
Why is Cancer Incurable Dr. Kent's observation on cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, Bright's disease, and many organic conditions of the body that how to take the case in such diseases and how to prescribe the remedy in such difficult cases. He further states that take the whole history of the patient since childhood, not prescribe on the current symptom picture because this picture is the end result of the previous childhood actions have been forgotten......
C.M. Boger
Cyrus Maxwell Boger 5/ 13/ 1861 "" 9/ 2/ 1935
Born in Western Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and subsequently Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1888, practicing there, but also consulting worldwide. He gave lectures at the Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati and taught philosophy, materia medica, and repertory at the American Foundation for Homoeopathy Postgraduate School. Boger brought BÅ"nninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory into the English Language in 1905. His publications include :
Boenninghausen's Characteristics and Repertory
Boenninghausen's Antipsorics
Boger's Diphtheria, (The Homoeopathic Therapeutics of)
A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915
General Analysis with Card Index, 1931
Samarskite-A Proving
The Times Which Characterize the Appearance and Aggravation of the Symptoms and their Remedies
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PHILOSOPHY AND THE REPERTORY


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Macbook - multi touch or not?
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I have a new Macbook 2.4ghz and I can use two-finger scrolling on it, which I understood to be one of the features of multi-touch. However, looking through the buyer's guide in Mac Format, it says that a disadvantage is that there is no multi-touch. Wiki also says Macbooks don't have it.
Is my understanding of multi-touch incorrect, or is it something the latest models have but older Macbooks don't?
No it's not multi-touch. That just the way of scrolling with all of the trackpads. The multi-touch is only on the MBPs.
NPuter
15" 2.2GHz Santa Rosa Macbook Pro - 4GB Ram - 120GB HD OS X Leopard - Windows XP
Yea... The "real" multitouch consists of the three finger swipe, pinch to zoom, and rotate gestures...
Khris
Unibody MacBook 2.4GHz/4GB Ram/320GB HD
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The multi-touch is only on the MBPs.
The MacBook Air also has Multi-Touch.
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz MacBook Black 4GB RAM Mid 2008
No as others have stated, however for new buyers viewing the thread, its extremely likely we'll see new macbooks in the near future and i'm nigh on certain multi-touch will be added to the line.


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Motorcycles Escort Vietnam Memorial Wall to Penn State
By Anne Danahy • Oct 5, 2017
Participants in the motorcycle honor escort of the Vietnam Memorial Wall replica. The wall will be at Innovation Park through Oct. 8, 2017.
Credit Min Xian
Motorcyclists escorted the Vietnam War Memorial Wall replica to Innovation Park, where it will be through Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017.
For Jim Krape, from Lock Haven, visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, was about healing.
Krape served in the U.S. Marine Corps including in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. On Wednesday, he was the road captain for the Traveling Wall.
"For years, I had a lot flashbacks and so forth, but once I got my hand on the wall, that seemed to go away. It's a healing process, that we know that our guys are here and they're safe. We are going to watch over them."
About 500 motorcyclists, including many veterans, turned out to be part of the Motorcycle Honor Escort Wednesday. It brought the Traveling Wall from the Bellefonte area to Innovation Park at Penn State.
Hosted by WPSU, the Traveling Wall is an 80 percent replica of the memorial wall in Washington, D.C.
The wall will be open to visitors beginning at noon today . Events will continue through the Sunday afternoon closing ceremony.
"There's an old saying among us: we all gave some, but some of these guys gave all."
The Traveling Wall
WPSU's Story Corps Vietnam: Bruce Heim and Susan Patterson
By Emily Reddy • Oct 4, 2017
Susan Patterson talked with her grandfather Bruce Heim about a convoy operation he led during the Vietnam War and what it was like to leave for the war.
WPSU's Story Corps Vietnam: Fred Brown and John MacMillen
John MacMillen talked with Fred Brown about his time in the Vietnam War.
WPSU's Story Corps Vietnam: Robert and Ryan Booz
Ryan Booz talks with his father Robert Booz about the time he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.


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As for the claimed fuel efficiency, Honda WR-V base Petrol engine returns 18 kmpl whereas the base Diesel returns 26 kmpl. Mahindra XUV300 base Petrol engine returns 0 kmpl whereas the base Diesel returns 0 kmpl.
In the powertrain department, the Honda WR-V gets 1 Petrol and 1 Diesel engine options - 89 bhp Petrol and 99 bhp Diesel engines. The Mahindra XUV300 comes in 1 Petrol and 1 Diesel engine options - 110 bhp Petrol and 115 bhp Diesel engines.


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ISRI staff hosted a webinar last week that analyzed expectations for trade during the Trump Administration.
The President has made some pronouncements designed to protect jobs and manufacturing in the United States, but questions have arisen about the direction of his policies and what they mean for recyclers. The webinar described what we know so far about the President's vision, how the Congress plays a roll, and the work ISRI is doing to support recyclers' business interests. If you were unable to attend, you can still access it in the webinar archives to replay the webinar. Any questions can be directed to Senior Director for International Affairs Adina Renee Adler.


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Explain Value, Please
The 'Stros signed reliever Joe Smith, yes Joe Smith yesterday, who played for Cleveland and the Jays this past season. Smith was first drafted in the 3rd round in 2006. Name the team who drafted him?
Here is the Mike Morris Chron story on the latest on the recycling contract for the City of H-Town: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/houston/article/Controller-balks-at-city-recycling-contract-12425746.php.
The Mayor says his proposed pick offers the best value for the City. That's fine and dandy but what does value mean? Just explain for some folks, what the heck is value? Shouldn't be hard to do.
The following is not a shocking development because she's a state leader on this issue and folks know it. Here is what State Rep. Carol Alvarado put out yesterday:
This past legislative session, anti-women politicians in the Texas Legislature once again passed laws that target women and teens, people of color, the LGBTQ community, and immigrants — all communities that rely on Planned Parenthood health centers. Planned Parenthood just released a list of Champs and Chumps in the Texas Legislature and I am honored to have been named a champion for women rights.
Here is from Planned Parenthood:
Rep. Carol Alvarado (D-Houston)
Rep. Alvarado has fought for reproductive health and rights throughout her tenure in the Texas Legislature. During floor debate on SB 8, Rep. Alvarado had some choice words for the extreme anti-woman legislators behind an alarmingly invasive abortion complications reporting amendment, highlighting that similar regulatory attention is never paid to health care for men.
She is just doing her job.
Here is a part of a Texas Observer story with the headlines:
No Texas Senator Has Called for the Resignation of Two Colleagues Accused of Sexual Misconduct
The reticence of many to respond strongly against these allegations is likely in part because more senators hold secrets of their own, a political scientist said.
This week, the Observer reached out to all 31 state senators as well as Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who didn't respond, about the allegations. Of the 15 senators who responded, including Miles and Uresti, all broadly denounced sexual harassment, variously noting that it is "unacceptable," "a serious and sensitive issue" and "will not be tolerated in the Texas Senate." However, none called on Miles or Uresti to resign. Seven senators — four Democrats and three Republicans — said the allegations needed to be investigated or reviewed by the Senate. (Read the full responses here.)
Here is the Observer story: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-sexual-harassment-resign-silence-uresti-miles/.
Duh? Commentary is going to kind of repeat what I said three days ago. Some of the State Senators have led sizable taxpayer funded operations. What policies did they have in place when they were in charge and how did they handle complaints if there were any? Pretty simple questions if you ask Commentary, but guess what, …..?
She completes me. Rather she completes my Dad's Christmas tree. My good buddy Laura dropped by yesterday with a 'Stros World Series Championship Christmas tree ornament. Very cool!
The Mets of course drafted Joe Smith in the 3rd round in 2006.
From the 'Stros:
The Houston Astros have agreed to terms on a two-year contract with free agent right-handed pitcher Joe Smith. The announcement was made by Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow. Smith, 33, combined to go 3-0 with one save and a 3.33 ERA (20ER/54IP) in 59 games with the Blue Jays and Indians in 2017. He racked up 71 strikeouts in his 54.0 innings, allowing just a .229 opponent batting average. He also made four postseason appearances for the Indians in the ALDS, tossing 2.1 scoreless frames. In seven career postseason appearances, Smith has allowed just one hit and no runs (5 IP). Smith is a veteran of 11 Major League seasons, having spent time with the Mets (2007-08), Indians (2009-13, 2017), Angels (2014-16), Cubs (2016) and Blue Jays (2017). He's made 698 career relief appearances, posting a 2.97 ERA (206ER/624.2IP). With the addition of Smith, the Astros now have 39 players on their 40-man roster.


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Q: Vivado Error named: [Synth 8-6859] multi-driven net on pin module top(
input [59:0] first,
input [59:0] second,
output out
        );

wire [14:0] out_wire;

assign first[19:0]= 20'b1111111111111111111;
assign first[39:20]= 20'b0000000000000000000;
assign first[59:40]=20'b11001100110011001100;

 .....
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I am getting the error in the title when synthesizing if I include the assign statements. How do I initialize these 3 assignment values to first[59:0] properly?
The whole design is combinational.

A: You say

*

*You want to inialise the values.

*The whole design is combinational.

That is contradictory.  Combinational signals always have a value assigned to them. you can't initialise them, not even with an initial statement.
Thirdly: Your first is an input.
If you want to assign a value to that it must be done outside the module. Thus you must make sure that whatever is driving your 'first' has the correct initial value. If that is a testbench you have to solve the problem there.

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Q: Update cloned repo from Github I apologise if any part of this is confusing; it's currently 11:21PM, and I've been trying to get this working since 1PM.
I'm cloning a private Github repository to my working directory using git clone git@github.com:username/repo.git /var/www. This works perfectly! No troubles.
I have setup a webhook on Github's side to notify my server of any new push events. This webhook is supposed to pull from the Github repo and update any modified files. It is not doing this.
Every time I call the webhook and run the commands I'm about to show you, it responds indicating that it is "up to date" with the "latest version", however it's indicating that the latest version is the version that it was initially cloned with.
I have run through every solution I can find, and there doesn't seem to be anything that works for my particular issue. My PHP webhook presently sports the following (as it's where I gave up):
git reset --hard HEAD
git pull
git status
git submodule sync
git submodule update
git submodule status

This was supposed to be a method to update multiple servers for me at once.. a way to connect everything. At the moment, the only thing that this whole thing is connecting, is my keyboard with my forehead.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: This was an SSH error. For anyone with a similar issue, please ensure that Git is looking for your id_rsa in the correct place :)

A: (I'm not entirely certain if I correctly diagnosed the issue you face, so this is a stab in the dark.)
You are using git over ssh to login to github (git@github.com:username/repo.git).
If you are doing this from a script which runs from a different user shell (e.g. webserver user), said script may not have access to your SSH-Agent, thus can't acces your private key and will fail the SSH login.
You will need to tell git how to find the SSH Agent which has your Github private key loaded and unlocked, using the environment variables
SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID.
Note: If you want to "update multiple servers at once", meaning you want a server-side git repo mirror, consider using git mirror instead.
This will not waste space for a work-dir checkout and automatically mirror all the remote refs, including (e.g.) github merge requests;
though it will not see/care about the submodules (you'll have to manually create mirrors for them alongside the main repo).
If you want to modify the files and push them back, you'll probably need the workdir(s) of course.

Example Cron script to remote-update local git mirrors over ssh transport; using
the keychain tool for ssh agent management.
(You'll have to adapt this concept to fit your php script, obviously.)
$ crontab -e
# m  h   dom mon dow   command
0    23   *   *   *    cd /my/mirrors/ && sh update-mirrors.sh

And the script contents:
$ cat /my/mirrors/update-mirrors.sh
#!/bin/sh

# Git mirrors are created with `git clone --mirror ...`
# to "convert" existing local repo into mirror, use
# $ git clone --mirror --no-hardlinks <local-git-path> <new-mirror.git>
# then update the origin remote to the upstream repo and run
# `git remote update`

# Crontab script needs ssh agent
# This sources a file generated by `keychain' with the following info:
#
#SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-TLf5KUaqLQgk/agent.15740; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
#SSH_AGENT_PID=15731; export SSH_AGENT_PID;
#
# You may do this some other way
#
. $HOME/.keychain/`/bin/hostname`-sh

d=`pwd`
cd $d

# Now update mirrors (our convention: end dirnames with '.git')
DIRS=`ls -dR *.git`

for f in $DIRS; do
        echo "$f"
        cd "$d"
        if [ -f "$f/HEAD" ]; then
                 cd "$f"
                 echo "* updating bare/mirror repo $f ..."
                 git remote update --prune
        elif [ -d "$f/.git" ]; then
                cd "$f"
                echo "updating clone $f ..."
                git remote update
                #git pull
        fi
done


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Democrats Press High Court To Make Call On ACA. How It Could Play Out At Polls.
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Warren and Klobuchar Say They Can Lower Drug Prices Without Congress' Help
Loopholes Limit New California Law To Guard Against Lofty Air Ambulance Bills
High-Deductible Plans Jeopardize Financial Health Of Patients And Rural Hospitals
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No Safety Switch: How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk
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If You Smoke Pot, Your Anesthesiologist Needs To Know
California Surprise-Billing Law Protects Patients But Aggravates Many Doctors
A California law, which took effect in July 2017, protects consumers who use an in-network hospital or other facility from surprise bills when cared for by an out-of-network doctor. But physicians say the law has allowed insurers to shrink networks, limiting access to those doctors who have contracted with the patients' insurance plans.
By Kaiser Health News December 5, 2019
More than two years after California's surprise-billing law took effect, there's one thing on which consumer advocates, doctors and insurers all agree: The law has been effective at protecting many people from bills they might have been saddled with from doctors who aren't in their insurance network.
But the consensus stops there.
"In general, the law is working as intended," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a patient advocacy group that pushed for the measure, AB-72. "Patients are protected and the providers are getting paid."
Physicians beg to differ. They say the law's constraints on what insurers now pay has given the companies an unfair advantage in negotiations with doctors, which is leading to major changes in the industry that may affect patients.
Recent analyses by some researchers, however, cast doubt on some of the doctors' dire warnings.
"The problem is that AB-72 is creating imbalances in the health care marketplace that are decreasing access to care," said Dr. Antonio Hernandez Conte, an anesthesiologist whose specialty is among those most affected by the law.
The California law, which took effect in July 2017, protects consumers who use an in-network hospital or other facility from being hit with surprise bills when cared for by a doctor who has not contracted with their insurer. If that happens, consumers are responsible only for the copayment or other cost sharing that they would have owed if they had been seen by an in-network doctor.
Federal lawmakers are eyeing the California law as a possible model as they debate legislative proposals that would address surprise billing at the national level.
The California law applies to nonemergency services, since most state consumers were already protected for emergency care through an earlier court ruling.
It's not unusual for patients who visit a hospital or ambulatory surgical center that is covered by their insurance to encounter specialists who aren't, even in nonemergency situations.
For example, someone who has knee replacement surgery with an in-network surgeon at an in-network hospital may not realize that the anesthesiologist and assistant surgeon also scrubbing in on the operation are not.
Or a couple may be surprised to learn that the neonatologist caring for their baby in intensive care is outside their insurance network, even though the hospital where they gave birth is inside it. Diagnostic specialists like radiologists and pathologists whom patients rarely see may be out-of-network at an in-network hospital as well.
Under the California law, the doctor's payment from an insurer in those situations is based on either the average contracted rate for similar services in the area or 125% of what Medicare would have paid, whichever is greater.
In a California Medical Association online survey released last month ― in which 855 physician practices responded ― nearly 90% of the doctors said that the law allowed insurers to shrink physician networks, thus limiting patients' access to in-network doctors. Physicians blame the new law's reimbursement rates for surprise out-of-network care. The payment standard made insurers less inclined to negotiate payments and reduced doctors' bargaining power, the physicians say.
Those surveyed said they faced insurer payment rate cuts, refusal to renew their contracts and contract termination, among other problems.
This has led some physicians to try to gain leverage by consolidating practices, a move that can drive up health care costs significantly, the doctors warn.
The medical association did not respond to calls for comment on the survey.
Hernandez Conte, who chairs the legislative and practice affairs division of the California Society of Anesthesiologists, also pointed to data from the California Department of Managed Health Care showing that consumer complaints about access to care have risen from 415 in 2016 to 614 in 2018, a 48% jump.
Those complaints represent a minuscule number of consumers in the context of the more than 30 million Californians covered by commercial insurance or Medi-Cal, said Loren Adler, associate director at the University of Southern California-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy. Adler noted that there's no way to know if the complaints had anything to do with the surprise-billing law.
Hernandez Conte also pointed to a study published in August by the research firm Rand Corp. that he said showed the law is eroding doctors' leverage with insurers.
But that study ― a series of 28 interviews with doctors and others about their experiences in the first year after the law took effect ― wasn't definitive, said author Erin Duffy, an adjunct policy researcher at Rand and postdoctoral fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC.
"It's more a reflection of what are some of the potential things we should look at down the road," she said.
Aside from individual examples of contracting problems cited by the physician group, researchers cite little evidence that patients are losing access to doctors who accept their insurance because of dwindling insurance networks.
The opposite appears to be true. USC-Brookings researchers published an analysis in September examining more than 17 million specialty claims by California physicians affected by the law. They found the share of services that specialty physicians delivered out-of-network at hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers declined by 17% after the law took effect.
When the law went into effect, there was a "precipitous" movement by affected physicians into insurance networks, said Adler, a co-author of the study.
Similarly, when the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans surveyed 11 large California health insurers about in-network providers during the two years after the law took effect, it found that the numbers grew or remained flat across specialties. There was a 16% increase in the number of in-network physicians overall, including a 26% rise in diagnostic radiologists and an 18% bump in anesthesiologists.
The plight of consumers who go to an in-network facility and, unbeknownst to them, receive treatment from out-of-network doctors has garnered plenty of attention in recent months.
In a typical scenario, the doctor charges the insurance company for services, then turns around and bills the patient for whatever amount the insurance company doesn't pay, a practice called balance billing. With no contract between the insurer and the doctor to set payment rates, the amounts billed by physicians are often higher than market rates, and the balance bills that patients face are many times higher than the regular copayment they would owe for in-network care.
Federal lawmakers are debating a number of measures that would address the issues at the federal level. The leading House and Senate bills would set minimum payment standards based on insurers' median in-network rate for a service for applicable out-of-network care, similar to the California law.
A federal law is key to broadening the surprise-billing protections provided by California's law, Wright said.
More than half of states now provide some level of consumer protection against surprise bills, and the efforts vary. But state surprise-billing laws protect only people insured by state-regulated plans. In California, that means 5.5 million consumers whose employers self-fund workers' health claims directly, rather than through an insurance plan, aren't covered by the law.
Since AB-72 was implemented, the Department of Managed Health Care hasn't taken any enforcement actions against physicians for balance-billing patients in nonemergency situations, according to agency spokeswoman Rachel Arrezola. It has pursued a handful of cases against doctors for out-of-network balance billing in emergency situations, however.
As doctors and patient advocates wrangle over AB-72, lawmakers are pressing new protections for consumers. A state law recently barred balance billing by air ambulance services.
Starting in January, California consumers who are airlifted by an out-of-network air ambulance won't be responsible for any more than their regular cost sharing for in-network providers.
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Rep. Fulcher: Don't Leave Behind 'The Gap Population'
What do contract employees, students taking a break from school to go back to work, employees working for low wages and those between jobs have in common? Known as "the gap population," this group faces a unique difficulty when securing affordable, long-term health insurance.
Sen. Kennedy: Lowering The Cost Of Prescription Drugs
In America, there is medicine to treat the common cold, regulate diabetes, lower blood pressure and even help cure cancer. But pharmaceutical drugs do Americans little good if they can't afford them.
Rep. Roe: Take Patients Out Of The Surprise Billing Equation
Today, 67 percent of Americans are worried about unexpected medical bills and 37 percent are very worried. What some people may not know is that surprise billing is usually the result of a breakdown in negotiations between providers and insurers on how much to pay for these services.
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