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Supreme Court Agrees to Review ObamaCare — Again
By Ann-Marie Adams, Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — In a carefully, crafted effort to re-tool ObamaCare, the U.S. Supreme Court last Friday agreed to tackle a case related to the Affordable Care Act signed into law in March 2010.
At the heart of this case, King v. Burwell, is whether health insurance for middle-class and low-income residents should be subsidized by the federal government. Subsidies such as tax credits were included in the reform law. King v. Burwell, like the similar Halbig v. Burwell case, has a long history in thecourt system. On July 22, two U.S. courts delivered opposite rulings on the subsidies.
Without these subsidies, most small business owners or unemployed people wouldn't be able to afford health insurance.
Halbig, one of several pending ObamaCare lawsuits, is expected to be heard again by a full circuit court panel on Dec. 17. The King case would likely be heard next spring.
Proponents of the ACA said this is a move, though touted as an unlikely one to have direct impact on Connecticut, more than 80,000 Obamacare enrollees should watch closely. Connecticut is one of 14 states that administers its own health insurance exchange through Access Health CT.
This would be the third time the Supreme Court take up cases related to Obamacare delving slight blows to the law. In 2012, five justices upheld the requirement that most Americans must buy health insurance or pay a tax–a victory for President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats. This ruling, joined by Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., was the most significant federalism decision since the New Deal in the 1930s. Howev3er, the court limited expansion of Medicaid, which provides health care to poor and disabled people.
In June 2014, the court ruled that the family-owned businesses should not be forced to provide insurance that covers contraceptive services because it violates the business owner's religious beliefs.
This latest move does not bode well for the Obama administration. That's because the legislative branch is run by the Republicans, who have tried to repeal the law 55 times.
However, Republicans will face an uphill battle in achieving this goal through the judicial branch. One conservative spokesperson said that incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should try a conciliatory approach.
"Republicans should use reconciliation to fully repeal Obamacare," said Ken Cuccinelli, who heads the Senate Conservative Fund.
The law had originally required states to run their own healthcare exchanges. Most states in the South rejected that idea, forcing residents to move to other states that offer Obamacare.
According to a report by the nonprofit health policy organization, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. up to 7.3 million people are expected to be on this insurance.
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Tags: African American Infant Mortality, Black Women, Obamacare
Black Women "Sick and Tired" of Low Quality Healthcare, Infant Mortality
Editor's Note: This article was made possible by the International Center for Journalists' Community Health Reporting Fellowship and is a part of an ongoing series on Race, Gender and Medicine in America.
By Ann-Marie Adams
Connecticut has the highest infant mortality rate for black babies.
That's according to the state's own 2009 health disparities report, which reveals consistently higher infant mortality rates than white and Hispanic infants.
The infant mortality rate represents the number of deaths among babies under one year old per 1,000 births. The latest report shows the number of deaths for black babies between 2001 and 2005 was 314 or 13 percent compared to Hispanics with 251 or 6.5 percent, or Whites with 515 or 3.9 percent.
Naturally, someone should ask why there's such a high death rate among black babies in Connecticut. Is it caused by improper nutrients from food desserts in urban areas? Or is it a systematic attempt—unmitigated long after the infamous Tuskegee experiment—to harm black people in America? Many so-called Third World countries do not have such high infant mortality rates. So I'm leaning toward the latter, considering socio-economic factors that are already impacting the black family.
Before you get your panties in a bunch, consider the history of race and medicine in America. If you do, you will contextualize the contemporary conditions and see that this is not an alarmist approach to scant evidence. It's a singular theory based on American history and years of research that have produced enough facts to examine this crisis.
According to The Hartford Guardian's own investigation of Greater Hartford-area hospitals, doctors are more willing to prescribe medications that damage black women's reproductive organs. The atrocity of substandard healthcare for many black women can be in the form of benign neglect in a hospital emergency room to egregious malpractice such as forcing medications against will—a common and often criminal–practice at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living. The most popular culprit is Risperidone, which seeps into breast milk and enlarges breasts.
Besides robbing many black women of their breast milk, Risperidone contributes to the mammification of the black woman's body. It's the most frightening side effect of this drug known to cause death. Similar steroidal and non-steroidal medications include cyclobenzprine, hydrocodon-acetaminophn, methylprednisolone, cogentin, gabapenten and haldol. Many cause hyper-lactatemia, a fancy word for inflating a woman's breast with deadly toxins.
The problem is not just in Connecticut, however. This also occurs at the Maryland-based National Institutes of Health, where doctors recruit women to use experimental drugs that cause harm to their reproductive system and then send them off to deal with the later consequences of an unknown drug.
Black men also face similar harm with pills that decrease libido or contribute to erectile dysfunction. But this story about the health industry makes a sharp departure from the overall black experience when we look at the intersection of race, gender and medicine.
The syphilis experiment from 1932 to 1972 by the U.S. Health Service generated national outrage and is well-known around the world. The lesser known experiments of black women like Henrietta Lacks did not cause an uproar.
This makes me want to scream.
Consider this: Black women are more likely to die of heart failure, cancer, and other diseases because of deficient medical care. They are also more likely to have uterine fibroids, which are commonly associated with stress. The confluence of stressors is attributed to socio-economic conditions. For example, black women are three times more likely than white women to be unemployed. And though you have gender inequality among wage earners, black women earn 70 cents on the dollar for the same work as other workers.
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Perhaps President Barack Obama, who benefited from the overwhelming support of black women voters in 2008 and 2012, should consider implementing policies that mitigate centuries of medical abuses and character assassination of the black woman in America. Besides the medical maladies they face, most black women are considered angry—even if they wear pastel colors and glue their mouths shut.
The angry woman trope is laughable among the righteously discontented, who are now wondering when they will we see policies that have a direct impact on their lives in every sphere. Let's deal with specificity. When will black women have equal access and opportunity?
Do they need to storm the White House to get Obama's attention? With two years left in the White House, perhaps he should consider forming a task force of multi-ethnic black women who will attack these deficiencies in the health field and change the way health care is administered to them. Are these deficiencies factored into the web of policies linked to Obamacare, which supposedly gives Americans access to quality and affordable healthcare?
If single black women consist of 70 percent of black households that overwhelmed voting booths to elect the first black president, then we ought to see specific policies that address these constituencies—sooner rather than later.
Like Fannie Lou Hamer who helped reshape the Democratic Party in the 1960s, some of us black women are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Dr. Ann-Marie Adams the founder and editor of The Hartford Guardian. She has worked for The Hartford Courant, The Washington Post, The Root.com, and People Magazine. She has taught U.S. History and Journalism at Quinnipiac University, Howard University and Rutgers University. Follow her on Twitter: @annmarieadams.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act (ACA), Obamacare
CT Reports Final Tally for Obamacare Enrollees
HARTFORD — The final tally is in for the number of enrollees under the Affordable Care Act through Connecticut's website.
According to Access Health CT officials, 208,301 people enrolled in under the ACA or Obamacare between Oct. 1 2013 and March 31, 2014.
State officials report that of the total amount, 78,713 have enrolled in a private insurance carrier, Qualified Health Plan.
Additionally, the number of enrollees surged on the deadline, March 31. AHCT received 5,365 voicemail messages from consumers with questions regarding their application and collected contact information from approximately 5,000 individuals who attempted to enroll in person or online and encountered some difficulty.
"Over the past two weeks, our team has made follow up calls to each of those individuals to assist them through the enrollment process, and we have now completed all open enrollment applications," said Kevin Counihan, Access Health CT CEO. "We're honored to have worked with so many organizations throughout our State and helped tens of thousands of previously uninsured or underinsured residents obtain the care they deserve."
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projected that Connecticut would enroll 33,000 consumers in private insurance plans, a target that was exceed in December 2013, and more than doubled in the final tally. Of the 208,301 enrollees, 78,713 enrolled with a private insurance carrier and 129,588 enrolled in Medicaid.
Of the 78,713 residents who enrolled with a private insurance carrier, 78 percent received a tax subsidy and 22 percent did not. These final enrollment numbers were calculated after redeterminations, duplications and cancellations from insurance carriers.
"These final enrollment numbers highlight Connecticut's success in implementing the Affordable Care Act," said Governor Dannel Malloy. "Thanks to the hard work of AHCT, state agencies, community health centers, and faith-based organizations, we far exceed our goal and as a result more people have access to more affordable healthcare."
State officials also plan to do follow up work to "help us understand the extent of the impact we've had so far, build on this success, and continue efforts to make Connecticut a healthier place to live and work," said Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, co-chair of the Access Health CT Board.
Until open enrollment begins on Nov. 15, 2014, residents will only be able to shop for coverage through Access Health CT under special circumstances, such as marriage, divorce, birth, adoption or loss of insurance coverage from an employer.
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Tags: Affordable Care, Henrietta Lacks, Obamacare, One Book
Choose One America: Obamacare or Reparations
With only one day left to sign up for the Affordable Care Act, opponents are still removing logic and common sense from arguments that tout the ACA as unsound. Basically, they don't want to subsidize insurance premiums for Americans on the government exchange.
This debate, seen as another attempt to gut the law, comes weeks after the Congressional Budget Office released a report that says the ACA, or Obamacare, would nix 2.3 million jobs. According to some, this would shake the foundation of the American economy. Most recently, a divided federal appeals judge said it was "an unmitigated disaster."
Before we move into hyperbole, we should examine the drawn-out brouhaha (more than 50 attempts to repeal it) over the ACA in an uncomfortable context.
The health care law, otherwise known as Obamacare, allows uninsured people—mostly poor whites, the elderly and people of color—access to health insurance. The main arguments against it are that universal healthcare—found in other developed countries, is too costly for America—the richest nation on the planet. And Americans will become lazy and work less because they have access to healthcare.
Sounds ludicrous? It is.
But I would urge some opponents of universal healthcare to consider the life of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman whose cells were taken without her consent and then used to develop cures for polio, vitro fertilization and other vital scientific breakthroughs in science.
This fascinating topic was recently discussed at the Avon Free Public Library. Two of the Lacks family members participated in the discussion. The series offered an opportunity to explore not just health, ethics and race but the healthcare industry itself.
For more than 60 years, the healthcare industry made billions from Lacks' cells. And today the Lacks family still wonders why their mother's immortal cells did so much for science, and they can't afford health insurance. After all, some in the Lacks family argue, their mother's He-La cells benefited "the whole world and all they got was her Bible and medical records."
The story of Henrietta Lacks' immortal cells is both amazing and unsettling. And the question of how race played into her healthcare is not difficult for some of us to answer. That's because we know that race is a central theme in America. And it is well established that race affects healthcare delivery and outcomes.
This is not an attempt at what some people would call "race hustling." It's about highlighting certain facts in American history. I'm aware that many Americans have not studied U.S. history. But that doesn't mean the rest of us who did should acquiesce to them.
Consider this: In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins took slices of the woman's tumor and decided to grow them, so he could "figure out the causes of cancer." This is long after doctors found a dime-size tumor on her cervix. They kept sending her home until she protested and begged for admittance, so she could be treated. By then, her body was riddled with cancer.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a book based on the Lacks family, details the encounter. And people are rightfully asking whether this family is owed something for thier contribution to humankind. This is a good conversation to have amid the tired healthcare debate over whether to repeal Obamacare.
I think giving access to healthcare for the Lacks family and others in similar situations should be favorable over reparations. At least, this is one way of looking at it. Or perhaps it's time Americans opposed to Obamacare choose: universal healthcare or reparations?
Some would argue for both.
Interestingly and ironically, the same argument used for not paying reparations has been used in the Lacks family's case. Many are quick to offer statements and questions like: It's impossible to calculate how much money is owed. Those who did the crime did their time on earth and died. And who would pay?
In both cases, the consequences of those past actions by individuals and institutions still linger. The Lacks story, among many, illustrates the need for universal healthcare in America.
Americans should consider universal healthcare as a human rights issue, or think of universal healthcare as payback for all the historical wrongs done not just to the Lacks family for "the good of humankind" but to all those other wrongs done in the name of science.
The most famous one in public memory is the Tuskegee Syphilis study, which began in 1932 and ran until 1972. In this study, the United States Public Health Service conducted an experiment in watching black men died from syphilis. The doctors didn't tell these men they had syphilis. And they didn't get healthcare. This story, like many, illustrates black oppression and medical neglect.
The Tuskegee case is more prominent, however, because it happened to black men. But there are other lesser-known atrocities, which happened to black women. Besides the Lacks case, we have the notorious J. Marion Sims, the so-called father of gynecology who used enslaved African women as experimental subjects.
These stories are known because the records exist. And unless we want to have more reasons to dig up America's past medical atrocities, we should perhaps silence the chatter about repealing Obamacare.
If talk about a repeal of Obamacare persists, we should juxtapose that discussion with a public debate about reparations.
I'm so ready for that.
Dr. Ann-Marie Adams is the founder of The Hartford Guardian. Follow her on twitter @annmarieadams.
Photo: Ann-Marie Adams/The Hartford Guardian: ( l to r): Shirley Lacks, Victoria Baptiste, Dr. Robbin Smith.
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Tags: Access Health CT, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Obamacare
Don't Believe the Hype Against Obamacare; Sign Up for Insurance
If you are uninsured and live in the Greater Hartford area, all roads should lead to Community Health Services on Albany Avenue to sign up for the Affordable Care Act.
Don't believe the hype against so-called Obamacare. That's because your insurance premium could be less than $100. And if you are eligible for Medicaid, your insurance premium could definitely be $0.
At this point, responsible individuals would have done research and found out the facts for themselves before they let people give them all kinds of cock and bull stories. And check this out: The people who are discouraging, or sabotaging other people's effort to sign up, have insurance themselves. Yes, people. They have insurance.
If you want to be covered by health insurance this year, the deadline to sign up is March 31. Appointments are available for next week. If you miss this deadline, you have to wait until November to sign up for the following year. But for now, any individual could try the service for one year and judge for herself whether there are drawbacks to being on this particular insurance. Duh!
For many, it takes less than 30 minutes, with the help of a staff person, to sign up. And it's best to go before crunch time because even now the state's website, accesshealthct.com, occasionally malfunctions. And CHS workers and others have to call in to AccessHealthCT to sort out kinks in the system.
To date, more than 5 million people across the nation have enrolled. And in Connecticut, more than 160,000 have enrolled, surpassing the state's targeted goal of 100,000. We can only think more people are not enrolled because anemic strategies have been employed to reach the people who need the insurance the most.
That's unfortunate.
But with 10 days left to go, uninsured people should embrace the unknown and sign up today. With uncertainty, it is indeed better to be safe than sorry. And as we have seen on numerous occasions, ignorance coupled with an unexpected medical condition, can be extremely expensive.
Get to it.
Tags: Access Health CT, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Access Health CT's Appeal Process for Frustrated Residents Should Be Less Painful
Access Health CT, Connecticut's official health insurance marketplace, reported a single-day record number of individuals applied for coverage by midnight on Dec. 23: more than 6,700. This figure, officials of the state agency boasted, puts the total number enrolled from Oct. 1 to Dec. 23 at about 62,000.
But people whose applications were not processed, or who had been waiting on the phone for more than 90 minutes, are not impressed.
Almost 300,000 Connecticut residents do not have health insurance. In Hartford County alone, 98,000 people lack coverage. Of that amount, 34,000 are in Hartford. Most of the uninsured in the capital city and the state are people of color and would have surely benefited from the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. It's the first nationwide health reform since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society effort with Medicare in 1965.
Just think. If the state's quasi-nonprofit agency had planned a more effective and inclusive enrollment period to meet the demand, many more people would have signed up, so that they could have had comprehensive health insurance effective Jan. 1.
For the thousands of people who did not get to enroll, hearing that they can continue to enroll up to March 31 without a tax penalty does not soothe the pain of learning they would have to wait another 30 days from enrollment for insurance to kick in, especially if they have a pre-existing need for insurance. All they have to look forward to at this point is more snafus or bureaucratic mazes to navigate.
Consider this: For one individual, enrolling online was a chore that failed. On Dec. 3, she filled out an application and submitted it through Access CT's portal. By Dec. 23, she had yet to receive confirmation that her application was processed. She also tried to log in, but was kicked off the site. So at about 4 p.m., she called the 800 numbers listed on Dec. 23. She received a recording saying that she should leave her number and someone would return her call the next business day.
This woman tried again several times until her last call at 10:06 p.m. — hoping to get someone on the phone. After waiting for about 30 minutes, someone answered and asked her name and age then put her on hold for 90 minutes. At 10 minutes before midnight, another agent came on the line and said that it was too late to enroll her.
It was a curious experience that demands answers: was the woman put on hold that long because she was over 40? Was Access CT screening calls so they could sign up mostly customers under 40? Why was there a recording throughout most of the day on Dec. 23, saying customers should call back the next day? How many people of color were signed up? If the state doesn't have that number as reported earlier, then can we know why? And most importantly, how many of the 34,000 uninsured people in Hartford were signed up?
There were other reported issues. But the main concern now is whether those individuals who were put on hold for waits lasting about an hour or who were locked out of the site, would be considered enrolled.
Although there are many assisters and navigators who have worked hard during the last several months, The Hartford Guardian has witnessed much bumbling during the enrollment period here. In fact, there were numerous warnings, one from Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra himselfsaying that "if you don't market it and recruit people in an appropriate place, you could still end up with a lot of uninsured." And that is the case — because of the incompetence and arrogance of those who guided the enrollment campaign.
There is also clearly conflict of interest and cronyism involved in how resources and marketing efforts were distributed, especially in Hartford. And these strategies and conflicts impacted the number of people and which segments of the population got enrolled on the exchange.
For instance, The Guardian couldn't help but notice that the so-called Navigator for the city of Hartford was the Hispanic Health Council, an agency whose founding member is Mayor Segarra. We also couldn't help but notice that Juan Figueroa, who was president of Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, is now Segarra's acting chief of staff. Figueroa also had a hand in crafting strategies leading up to the state's health reform push that began in January 2013. And he sits on the board of director for a news outlet charged with being the official organ of everything positive about Access Health CT.
We also noticed that resources were directed to community papers, which quietly ignored the fact that there was reportedly only one person in the North End to cover half that populous section. And that most of the marketing efforts in the city targeted the South End of Hartford, just one of the city's 17 neighborhoods.
We are happy to see that Access Health CT has taken steps to correct its errors and is now "actively reaching out" to those people who were on hold Dec. 23. These frustrated applicants should indeed now be considered eligible for coverage effective Jan. 1.
However, appeal process in place for others should also take into account the insufficient recruitment efforts made in some city neighborhoods, which were seemingly overlooked because of sub-par marketing strategies and outreach.
An we hope the appeal process won't be as painful as it was waiting online for 90 minutes without a positive outcome.
Individuals interested in filling an appeal should either call 855-805-4325 or mail their appeal to Access Health CT Appeals, P.O. Box # 670, Manchester, CT 06045-0670.
Dr. Ann-Marie Adams is founder and editor of The Hartford Guardian. Follow her on twitter.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Health Care Reform in Slow Gear for Hartford
Healthcare reform is coming to Connecticut on Oct. 1.
And with less than a month to go, Connecticut's congressional delegation was scheduled to meet on Wenesday to help ramp up an awareness campaign in the city of Hartford and the state, hoping to convey the import of this major reform spawn by President Barack Obama's administration.
Access Health CT, charged with the gargantuan task of setting up an online marketplace to help enroll people, have been traversing the state with informational meetings, sending out press releases to mainstream media, particular ethnic circulars and local gate keepers who traditionally disseminate information to their family and friends network. Access also attended community fairs, concerts and festivals. They are, indeed, aggressively getting the word out about Access Health CT. Last Wednesday, officials said they were ready for the Oct. 1 rollout.
But what it all means for Hartford residents, especially people of color, has yet to be told.
Case in point: at an Aug. 6 block party in the Blue Hills neighborhood, a twenty-something white man approached a black woman sitting at a table. He mumbled something about insurance and was shooed away. When asked about the nature of the man's spiel, she said she didn't hear most of what he said, "just something about insurance."
The Hartford Guardian was present and found it interesting that Access sent a white male into an all-black community to promote the Affordable Care Act. Why not hire someone from the neighborhood?
This health care program, also known as Obamacare, are for people without insurance, who cannot get insurance because of preconditions and a whole host of categories. Most likely, it is for people who are unemployed and underemployed, many of whom are black and Latino.
A recent phone conference with the ethnic press conveyed the importance of the Affordable Care Act and its impact on communities of color and the poor. Several callers wanted to know about resources for community outreach, or for doing substantive stories about the program. That's because implementation of Obamacare, as its sometimes called, is a $5 billion industry; and many companies will be cashing in. As usual, not many small and minority businesses have been in that loop during the early stages.
Additionally, many ethnic papers would like to go beyond referring people to a website and instead disseminate substantive information through a cultural lens. And it was evident in the recent conversation, which also illustrated the knowledge gap that will certainly have a ripple effect in communities of color, if not mitigated soon.
With less than 30 days to go, ethnic communities will have to play catch on mountains of information that have accumulated since January. But many also want to make one thing very plain. They are not interested in just being consumers of the health insurance marketplace. They want more.
On the heels of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, people of color are asking for not just civil rights but also economic justice.
How the state spends millions of dollars to implement this major healthcare reform will be a significant indicator on the question of equity and whether we will have to march on the Washington Mall again in another 50 years.
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'Obamacare' Offers Young Adult Health Care and Peace of Mind
By Charlene Muhammad, Final Call
Motivated, and armed with an architectural degree, Rumeisha Bowyer set out to obtain employment in her field, with health care benefits thrown in.
Two years and several full- and part-time jobs later, however, the 24-year-old is still searching for both.
"It's very frustrating because I know I'm very, very educated but nothing's happening at the moment," Bowyer noted. "And health care is very important because if I get really, really sick, I won't be able to afford my own health insurance."
Bowyer's mother, Deanna Bressler-Montgomery, is grateful that her daughter still has access to health care, thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), comprehensive health care reform signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. ACA will allow Bowyer to remain on her mother's health care insurance plan until she turns 26.
Prior to the ACA, Bowyer, who is minimally obese, has asthma and eczema, would have aged out of her mother's health insurance plan a lot sooner. Parents could only cover their children until they turned 19, unless they were disabled; or up to their 24th birthday if they were enrolled in college full time.
Under the ACA, young adults can remain on their parents' plan up to age 26, even if they are out of school, married or living on their own, if they cannot get health insurance through an employer.
Now, Bowyer can continue receiving medications and treatment for her health problems, as well as preventive care services, like the kickboxing and nutrition classes she currently attends.
"The weight training class is very beneficial because I've been struggling with weight for years. They offer free programs with the health insurance I have. If I didn't have it, I would have to pay for a gym membership or do the basic run around the block, run around the corner, or run around the park," Bowyer explained.
Scheduling time for such activities during safe, daylight hours is challenging because she works two part-time jobs, the incomes from which don't add up to even $1,000 a month. Still, Bowyer is saving the money she earns working her part-time jobs so she can start paying for her own insurance when she turns 26 and is dropped from her mother's plan. Meanwhile, she continues to search for a job with benefits that will kick in before then, she said.
According to the Center for Consumer I n f o r m a t i o n and Insurance O v e r s i g h t, an arm of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a part of the Department of Health and Human Services,prior to the ACA, 42 percent of young adults switched or lost coverage once they graduated. In addition, 76 percent who were then uninsured did not get needed medical care.
"The Affordable Care Act requires plans and issuers that offer dependent coverage to make the
coverage available until the adult child reaches the age of 26. Many parents and their children who worried about losing health insurance after they graduated from college no longer have to worry," explains the center on its website.
In California, 435,000 young adults gained insurance coverage as of December 2011 due to the health care law, according to the National Health Interview Survey, a data collection program of the National Center for Health Statistics. Nationally, the provision has allowed 3.1 million young adults to get health coverage.
"The ACA has meant my family saves money because I couldn't afford to pay the $500 a month for her
insurance. I can at least try to afford the 10 percent and not go into debt. It's better than paying the whole thing," Bressler-Montgomery said.
For Bowyer, being able to stay on her mother's health insurance plan has meant being able to buy asthma medication and keeping the disease under control. The 30-day supply of medication needed for her skin condition costs more than $100, and even with the $10 co-pay the family is able to cope, noted Bressler-Montgomery. She said she shudders to think of how much they would have had to pay out of pocket for Bowyer's treatment had the young woman not been able to stay on her health insurance plan.
"I don't like the fact that (some people) call it 'Obamacare,'' she said. "I think it's negative but if they want to call it that, that's okay. It's the best care they can get right now."
This article was made possible by a New America Media fellowship sponsored by The California Endowment.
Photo caption: Rumeisha Bowyer and, seated, her mother Deanna Bressler-Montgomery. Photo courtesy of Deanna Bressler-Montgomery
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'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' is the title for COD 2019
It seems as though the numerous leaks of Modern Warfare 4 are now dead in the water. In a leak by Kotaku reporter Jason Schreier, COD 2019 by developer Infinity Ward is simply called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Since the summer of 2018, the thought process was that COD 2019 would be Modern Warfare 4. Infinity Ward hasn't had the same sparkling success they had with the MW series in their past two games.
So with their recent mediocrity, it made sense they would returns fans to the glory days. While we are now 100 percent certain of the name, we still have no other confirmed information.
I can confirm this is true, and that it's hilarious. The first one was "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" so obviously the fourth one is "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." Video games are absurd https://t.co/Ghb1m2srC4
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) May 24, 2019
Another Modern Warfare?
Back in 2007, Activision released Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Though a lot of the community is excited about another Modern Warfare game, they're a bit puzzled about the naming process.
Typically, franchises don't repeat title names. It gets too confusing if one or more games have the same name. However, Activision clearly isn't worried about this, as 12 years later they are releasing their second game just called Modern Warfare.
While we still have no official reveal date, we do have some additional information coming from multiple sources. As this game doesn't have a number attached to its title, we can hypothesize that it will be a prequel to the first MW. This would mean the return of many iconic Campaign characters and multiplayer weapons/maps.
However, fans shouldn't expect a full-on reboot of the MW games. In another tweet by Jason Schreier, he calls COD 2019 a "soft reboot" for the MW series.
"Soft reboot"
When can we expect a reveal?
Although we have no official reveal time, there have been some potential leaks about a reveal date. According to sources from @GamingINTEL, May 30 is the expected date for a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reveal. Though, there is no time and place as of right now.
Take this information with a grain of salt, as much of the leaked information about this Call of Duty has turned out false, and GamingINTEL in particular has questionable methods for acquiring its "leaks."
We will keep you updated on our Call of Duty page if any other leaks or information comes along.
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Functional interaction between neuropeptide Y receptors and modulation of calcium channels in the rat hippocampus.
Authors: Silva, AP Carvalho, AP Carvalho, CM Malva, JO
Citation: Silva AP, etal., Neuropharmacology. 2003 Feb;44(2):282-92.
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We investigated the functional interaction between neuropeptide Y (NPY) receptors using nerve terminals and cultured rat hippocampal neurons, and we evaluated the involvement of voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels (VGCCs) in NPY receptors-induced inhibition of Ca(2+) influx and glutamate release. The KCl-evoked release of glutamate from hippocampal synaptosomes was inhibited by 1 microM NPY and this effect was insensitive to either BIBP3226 (Y1 receptor antagonist) or L-152,804 (Y5 receptor antagonist), but was sensitive to BIIE0246 (Y2 receptor antagonist). We could also pharmacologically dissect the NPY receptors activity by using Y1, Y2 and Y5 receptor agonists ([Leu(31),Pro(34)]NPY, NPY13-36, NPY (19-23)-(Gly(1),Ser(3),Gln(4),Thr(6),Ala(31),Aib(32),Gln(34))-pancreatic polypeptide (PP), respectively), and in all the cases we observed that these agonists could inhibited the KCl-induced release of glutamate. However, the selective and specific co-activation of both Y1 and Y2 or Y2 and Y5 receptors resulted in non-additive inhibition, and this effect was prevented in the presence of the Y2 antagonist, but was insensitive to the Y1 or Y5 receptor antagonist. Moreover, as we previously showed for Y1 receptors, we also observed that the activation of Y5 receptors inhibited the glutamate release in the dentate gyrus and CA3 subregion, without significant effect in the CA1 subregion of the hippocampus. The same qualitative results were obtained when we investigated the role of NPY Y1 and Y2 receptors in modulating the changes in [Ca(2+)](i) due to KCl depolarisation in cultured hippocampal neurons. The inhibitory effect of nitrendipine (L-type VGCC blocker) or omega-conotoxin GVIA (omega-CgTx; N-type VGCC blocker) was not potentiated by the simultaneous activation of Y1 or Y2 receptors. Moreover, the exocytotic release of glutamate was inhibited by omega-agatoxin IVA (omega-Aga; P-/Q-type VGCC blocker), and this VGCC blocker did not potentiate Y1, Y2 or Y5 receptor-mediated inhibition of glutamate release. Also, the effect of ionomycin in inducing the exocytotic release of glutamate from hippocampal synaptosomes was insensitive to the activation of NPY receptors. In the present paper, we identified a role for NPY Y1, Y2 and Y5 receptors in modulating the exocytotic release of glutamate and the [Ca(2+)](i) changes in the rat hippocampus. In conditions of co-activation, there appears to exist a physiological cross-talk between Y1 and Y2 and also between Y2 and Y5 receptors, in which Y2 receptors play a predominant role. Moreover, we also show that Y1 and Y2 receptors exert their inhibitory action by directly modulating L-, N-, and P-/Q-type VGCCs, whereas the inhibition of glutamate release mediated by the Y5 receptors seems to involve P-/Q-type VGCCs.
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3 Point Shot Breaking the NBA?
This video explains the evolution of the impact of the 3-point shot in the NBA but despite the title, it only superficially discusses whether it is breaking the NBA or not.
Analytics drove this change when the management of the Golden State Warriors — in Silicon Valley, dontcha know — decided to pursue this style of play around 2008-09
The reason for emphasizing the three-pointer: to increase offensive efficiency as measured by points per 100 possessions.
By essentially replacing some two-pointers with three-pointers, especially if you can shoot well above 33% on those threes, you can squeeze more points from an equal number of possessions. It's just math: shooting 50% on two pointers is the goal, so if you can shoot sbove 33% on threes you get more points for a given number of shots.
This de-emphasizes the mid-range and low-post game across the league, causing changes in who teams draft and what skill sets they want, which means those changes have already rippled through the college game too.
All of that is expected as a natural consequence of making the three-pointer the focal point of the offense.
But as always there are unintended consequences, which can change things in radical and surprising ways, and some of that is definitely happening here.
The following are just my observations, the way the game looks different to me, and listed in order of importance for me personally:
Creates stagnation and reduces cutting and player movement away from the ball — many if not most posessions are four or five guys all standing 20+ feet from the basket near the three point line, with little cutting or movement away from the ball
Reduces offensive rebounding opportunities and the effort and attitude that goes with that, which makes teams more passive overall and results in a lot of boring "one and done" possessions where no offensive player is within 20 feet of the rebound
Defense becomes less of a factor since closely defending players 24 feet from the basket is risky
Creates potential over-reliance on outside shooting, which some days is just not there, as every fan already knows has always been a risk — but now it's even bigger
All big negatives for me. Others may disagree and I get that, but as a fan I have strong preferences for a very active style of play with lots of movement away from the ball (back door cuts etc), strong defense and high levels of effort and "want to" especially on the boards — and if you take much of that away, and there's a lot of standing around, I start to lose interest.
For me, and many others I suspect, it's just become a much different and less appealing game, even if others like it the same or even more.
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Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the curry leaves (if using) and fry for 2–3 minutes until the leaves begin to crisp up and brown. Add the onion and ginger and sauté gently for 5 minutes, until the onion has softened, then add the garlic and fry for a further minute until aromatic. Add the spices, tomatoes, half a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of black pepper. Fry for a further 2 minutes until aromatic, then add the coconut milk, carrots and green pepper. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, for 20–25 minutes until the vegetables are cooked through and the sauce has reduced down a little. If you are using fish, add it to the curry for the last 5 minutes of cooking time, until just cooked through.
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PORT MORESBY, Jan 9, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said.
The quake hit at a depth of 19 kilometres (12 miles) at 0205 GMT in the Solomon Sea, around 200 km off the southern coast of New Britain island, according to the USGS.
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Papua New Guinea sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, which is a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates.
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Q: How to evaluate integrals with respect to Lebesgue measure on the unit sphere? Let $\sigma$ be the "normalized Lebesgue" (Haar, really...) measure on the unit sphere $S=S^{n-1} \subset \mathbb R^n$. That is, $\sigma$ has support $S$, it is uniformly distributed, and $\int_S d\sigma = 1$.
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to understand and evaluate integrals $\int_S f\left(x\right) d\sigma\left(x\right)$ of non-trivial (let's say, even and non-constant) functions $f$. This is not really "the" $\mathbb{R}^n$ Lebesgue measure or a restriction thereof, so I can't easily convert it to a Riemann integral (unless there's something I haven't noticed).
As a simple example, how do I evaluate $\int_S (x_1)^2 d\sigma(x)$ when $n=2$? Please explain in a way that I can generalize.
Note: What I'm eventually really interested in is proving that the Fourier transform of $\sigma$, that is, $\hat\sigma(y) := \int_S \exp \left(2\pi i x\cdot y \right) d\sigma(x)$, which is always real (as $\sigma$ is symmetric), is negative on some sphere (in the Fourier-space) centered at zero. This is not supposed to be hard. I'm thinking it's going to look like a "sinc" function which is negative infinitely many times when you move away from the origin, but I don't know how to actually show that. Some pointers (but not a full proof please) would be welcome :)

A: It sounds like you're on the wrong track to answer your question about the Fourier transform--these integrals can't be evaluated in any explicit sense (though one can derive formulas for them involving Bessel functions).  The shortest solution to your problem that I can see would be to compute the integral $$\int_{{\mathbb R}^n} e^{-\beta \pi |y|^2} \hat \sigma(y) dy$$ exactly as a function of $\beta > 0$ using Fubini, then argue that the limiting behavior as $\beta \rightarrow 0^{+}$ of this integral contradicts the assumption that $\hat \sigma(y)$ is nonnegative.

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Weird black hole spewed star-forming jets 500 light years long
Black holes located in dwarf galaxies usually stop star formation, but now one has been seen seeding new stars through a huge plume of ionised gas
Space 19 January 2022
By Alex Wilkins
A dwarf galaxy known as Hen 2-10
A black hole at the centre of a dwarf galaxy has birthed new stars by expelling jets of gas hundreds of light years long.
Astronomers have observed supermassive black holes creating star-forming regions before, but until now it was thought that black holes residing in dwarf galaxies, which contain a billion stars or less, hindered star formation.
Zachary Schutte at Montana State University and his colleagues observed the black hole in a dwarf galaxy called Hen 2-10 spewing a plume of ionised gas nearly 500 light years long, stretching from the galactic centre to a cloud of gas on the galaxy's edge where stars were forming.
Schutte and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe and carry out spectroscopy on the dim dwarf galaxy, which is about 34 million light years away in the constellation Pyxis.
Astronomers are interested in dwarf galaxies like Hen 2-10 because they could be similar to the galaxies found in the very early universe. If the laws governing galaxy evolution haven't changed, understanding how these galaxies form stars could tell us how galaxies like our own Milky Way might have first evolved.
Read more: Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at incredible speeds
"Any time that we find new interactions between [black holes] and their host galaxies, especially in dwarf galaxies like this, it speaks to possible ways stars were formed and how galaxies grew in the early universe," says Schutte.
Dwarf galaxies typically have a black hole or supernova at their centre, but they are so dim that it can be difficult to tell which they contain. But the high-resolution method that Schutte and his team used for Hen 2-10 resulted in strong evidence of a black hole, providing a potential road map for imaging other dwarf galaxies.
"It's a real breakthrough because it allows us to say with confidence that it is a [black hole] source as opposed to a supernova," says Joanna Piotrowska at the University of Cambridge. "That is a major step in this puzzle."
Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04215-6
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import junit.framework.TestCase;

/**
 * Tests {@code DistributionManagement}.
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public class DistributionManagementTest
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{

    public void testHashCodeNullSafe()
    {
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    public void testEqualsNullSafe()
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Civilsamfundet er i modsætning til staten og markedet den del af samfundet, der ligger uden for den formelle økonomi og det formelle politiske system. Civilsamfundet dækker både over fonde, socialøkonomiske virksomheder, selvejende institutioner, interesse- og brugerorganisationer, uformelle netværk og sociale bevægelser samt frivillige foreninger såsom ikke-kommercielle sportsklubber. Begrebet er udviklet indenfor sociologien, hvorfra det har bredt sig til de andre samfundsvidenskaber.

I den politiske system kan civilsamfundet repræsentere "den almindelige borgers" holdning. Dette sker f.eks., når Forbrugerrådet Tænk påvirker staten til at sikre bedre forhold for forbrugerne eller når almennyttige fonde som Realdania, TrygFonden og Rockwool Fonden øver direkte indflydelse i offentlige projekter herunder etableringen af infrastruktur og evaluering af forvaltning og politik. Således kan civilsamfundet være relativt økonomisk uafhængige af både marked og stat og på samme tid være en integreret aktør i den politiske proces på en sådan måde, "hvor normen i Danmark ellers har været, at stat og kommuner traf de autoritative afgørelser".

Civilsamfundet er et begreb, der stadig diskuteres og ikke mindst civilsamfundets rolle i forhold til demokrati. Civilsamfundet afspejler mange forståelser af, hvordan forholdet bør være mellem den enkelte, samfundet og staten. I et demokrati skal alle gennem foreninger og organisationer have mulighed for at diskutere, hvordan samfundet skal organiseres, og hvordan problemer skal håndteres. I begrebet civilsamfund indgår alle mulige former for organisationer og foreninger uden for staten og markedet. Det kan således være alt fra store kirkelige organisationer som den katolske kirke til en lille frimærkeklub.

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En af de sociologer, der har beskæftiget sig mest indgående med civilsamfundet er Jürgen Habermas. Han understreger bl.a., at civilsamfundets kommunikationsformer adskiller sig fra kommunikationsformerne i stat og marked. Ifølge Habermas består et samfund af tre overordnede dele: stat, marked og livsverden. Civilsamfundet er i denne kontekst de institutioner, der udspringer af livsverdenen.

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Q: Question on orientation-preserving homeomorphism Let $B:=[0,1]^n$, $n\in\mathbb{N}$. Let $f:B\rightarrow B$ be an orientation-preserving homeomorphism. If for any $(x_1,...x_n)$ on the boundary of $B$, $f(x_1,...x_{n-1},x_n)=(x_1,...,x_{n-1},1-x_n)$ then can we draw out a contradiction?
(Intuitively, can a cube be reversed by an orientation-preserving homeomorphism? It seems it shouldn't but I don't know its rigorous proof)

A: No, this is not possible. Any orientation preserving homeomorphism of a connected orientable manifold-with-boundary also preserves the orientation of the boundary of $M$.
You can find discussions of manifolds, their boundaries, and orientations thereof, in most algebraic topology textbooks, usually in the section on Poincare Duality. Sometimes the things you want to know are contained in the exercises. Often the answers require a strong knowledge of homology and cohomology, including a smattering of category theory.
For example, in Hatcher's algebraic topology, section 3.3 contains the following two exercises (both are stated over any coefficient ring; I'll simplify the statements to assume integer coefficients):

*Show that boundary of an orientable manifold is also orientable.

*Show that if $M$ is a compact orientable $n$-manifold, then the boundary map $H_n(M,\partial M) \to H_{n-1}(\partial M)$ [also known as the "connecting homomorphism of the long exact sequence of homology"] sends a fundamental class for $(M,\partial M)$ to a fundamental class for $\partial M$.

Exercise 31 answers your question for the compact case, because the connecting homomorphisms are natural transformations. The noncompact case can also be handled by using a somewhat different natural transformation, namely the connecting homomorphism of cohomology with compact supports.
Having said all of that, it's probably possible to piece together a more elementary argument, if you work carefully through the proof of Exercise 30.


One of the first things we do when engaging with new clients is to discuss the hiring process and determine what steps to include in their hiring process. In order to get a complete picture of a candidate, we often include several different stages and assessments. For example, we might include an initial application, an in-depth online assessment, a work sample exercise, and an interview as part of the process. Pulling together all of this information, we can see how the candidate performs on important competencies in different types of assessment methods.
When determining which steps are most appropriate for the position and the organization, clients often ask, is more always better? Does having more stages in the process provide a greater return on investment? The answer is … it depends. In answering this question, we often look at incremental validity. Before talking specifically about incremental validity, let me provide a refresher on what validity is.
Overall, when examining the impact and effectiveness of a specific tool or assessment, we determine its validity. Validity, or validation evidence, gives us an indication of how well the assessment measures what it is intended to measure. For example, if a tool is intended to measure cognitive ability, does it give us an accurate representation of how smart someone is in the real world? In the domain of hiring and selection, we seek tools that are accurate because that will enable us to be more confident in selecting individuals who are more likely to be successful on the job. Therefore, we want a test that has a lot of validation evidence.
Taking this a step further, when we include multiple tools in the hiring process, we want to do more than just look at the validity of each tool. Validity evidence can tell us how effective the tool is independent of other tools. However, when tools are used in combination with one another, we need to look at the validity evidence from a different perspective. All of the tools might have high validity estimates independent from each other, but when used in combination, we need to ask whether there is value added. Determining incremental validity is the way to do that.
Incremental validity will tell us how much unique information the additional tool will have. If there is a lot of overlap in the content and sections in two assessments, then the incremental validity will be fairly low for the second tool. In these two tools, you are capturing much of the same information and the tests wouldn't provide unique information. This would not be efficient for your hiring process from a time or resources perspective.
Alternatively, if there is little overlap in the content, then there is the potential for much greater incremental validity. For example, if we are focused on leadership skills in one tool and technical ability in another, then there is very little overlap in the content. If both tools have strong validity evidence to begin, then adding the second tool would provide a lot of unique information to help you make a more informed decision. Combining these tools in the assessment process would provide a good return on investment.
It's more typical that you will find some degree of overlap between tools in a hiring process. A best practice of any hiring process is to measure skills in different ways to get a clearer and more accurate picture. For example, we might measure coaching skills through situational judgment items or through a role play exercise. Even though the exercises are assessing the same skill, the skills are measured in different ways. As such, it is very likely that each of these tools would provide valuable information.
When developing a hiring process, incremental validity is something important to consider. We want to make sure that each of the tools included in the process provides unique information. Unique information means a greater return on your investment. By focusing on effectiveness and efficiency of the hiring solution, we can increase the likelihood that you will find and retain top talent.


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In adversity, what are farmers doing to be more resilient?
Opportunities, barriers and constraints in organic techniques helping to improve the sustainability of conventional farming
Intercropping opportunities
Farmers invited to take part in diverse cropping project to increase yields
ORC recently held a DIVERSify workshop, which outlined the
aims of this innovative project to farmers and is inviting
farmers to participate in the project
The Organic Research Centre, a leading independent research charity, is inviting UK farmers to participate in a new EU-funded project called DIVERSify which is investigating how to maximise the performance of crop mixtures (or plant teams) to improve yields while reducing the reliance on inputs.
Dr Bruce Pearce from the Organic Research Centre said, "It is estimated that we will need a 70% growth in food production by 2050 to feed the rapidly increasing global population. Although crop yields increased post 1950 through agricultural advances and farming inputs, these are now starting to plateau."
With this in mind, a new EU-funded project called DIVERSify has been established to investigate the design of innovative mixtures of crop species to improve the performance of crop yields while reducing pest and disease damage. The project consortium of 23 EU and International partners is co-ordinated in the UK by the James Hutton Institute. Other UK partners are the Organic Research Centre (ORC), Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) and Linking Environment and Farming (LEAF).
Intercropping with plant teams is the concept of growing two or more crops together in the same space and time, such as growing a barley with a pea mixture or winter beans with wheat or undersowing a combinable crop with clover mixtures. These plant teams can interact in a way that increases their fitness and yield and they become beneficial to each other rather than competing for resources. Intercropping of compatible plants encourages biodiversity by providing a habitat for a variety of insects and soil organisms that would not be present in a single crop. This not only improves soil quality, yields and farm income it also reduces the need for pesticides and fertilisers.
Bruce Pearce explains, "We are now facing increased pressure and challenges to grow crops more sustainably with fewer inputs, while ensuring that crop production comes with minimum environmental damage. There could be huge benefits to be gained from this new research. Cereal/legume plant teams have the potential to produce 30% higher yields on average compared to monocultures. Combined with reduced off-farm inputs and higher yield stability, this can result in higher incomes and lower risks for farmers."
Farmer participation forms a major element of the project and funding is available to support farmer involvement in return for their contribution to the project. Farmers taking part will be invited to trial their own mixtures and compare these to a nearby monoculture and submit basic crop performance data. Farmers will also establish their own mixtures and demonstrate the benefits to peers through on-site demonstration days.
Bruce Pearce continues "Our key aim with DIVERSify is to identify the challenges and barriers that farmers might face when incorporating this system. We need to establish which plant teams work well and show how they can contribute to yield stability, reduce losses and increase resilience to environmental stresses. We are also aiming to produce a mobile-phone friendly app for practioners, agronomists and advisers to decide on the right mixtures, ensuring that the ratios of the crops, the choice of variety are right and that crop management is adapted according to soil type, rotation and time of year."
Farmers participating in the project will be asked to devote a suggested minimum area of 2,000m² to their plant team. This area could be a stand-alone plot or strip within an existing crop. However this must be positioned near to an area of monoculture for comparison.
Once the plots are established, the farmers will be able to work with a DIVERSify 'science buddy' to collect basic data. It is anticipated that farmers will receive funding up to 1,000 Euros each, although applications for support above this figure are welcomed where they are justified, e.g. if both data collection and on-farm demonstration are offered.
For more information or to submit an application, please contact the Organic Research Centre by email: diversify@organicresearchcentre.com
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The Organic Research Centre (ORC): established in 1980, is the UK's leading independent research charity for the development of organic/agroecological food production and land management solutions to key global issues including climate change, soil and biodiversity conservation, and food security. www.organicresearchcentre.com
DIVERSify has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreement No. 727284. It is a four year Horizon 2020- funded project (2017-2021). The project comprises a consortium of 23 EU and international partners and includes research institutes, universities, commercial and not-for-profit organisations. The project aims to optimise the performance of crop species mixtures or 'plant teams' to improve yield stability, reduce pest and disease damage and enhance stress resilience in agricultural systems. It focusses on improving the productivity and sustainability of European agriculture using an approach that has global relevance, learning from experience of international researchers and stakeholders. www.plant-teams.eu
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Gov. Murphy to Sign Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act in April 2018
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The Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act ("Act") was passed by the Legislature in March of 2018, and is set to be signed by Gov. Murphy. According to NJ.com, the Senate voted 35-0 to pass the bill. The Assembly's vote was 74-2 , with the two "no" votes coming from Assemblymen Michael Patrick Carroll and Assemblyman Jay Webber, both R-Morris. The law had previously been presented to Gov. Christie for signature multiple times, who consistently vetoed the bill.
The Act, which goes into effect on July 1, 2018, amends the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("LAD") by making it unlawful (with limited exceptions) for an employer to pay an employee who is a member of a protected class less than the rate paid to other employees who are not members of that protected class for "substantially similar work when viewed as a composite of skill, effort and responsibility." Protected classes include, but are not limited to, gender, race, national origin, age, martial, civil union, or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, and pregnancy. New Jersey is one of the first states to pass an equal pay law that extends protections beyond gender to all classes of employees protected under the LAD.
The Act does not prohibit different rates of pay for employees based upon a seniority system. The Act establishes a six-year statute of limitations, and permits a judge \to award a successful plaintiff employee treble damages, i.e., triple the amount of the actual/compensatory damages that the employee suffers, in certain circumstances.
Regarding his decision to sign the Act, Gov. Murphy tweeted the following on April 10th: "There is no reason a woman in New Jersey should earn just 82 cents to the dollar made by a male for the same work. That's why, two weeks from now on April 24, I will sign into law the most sweeping equal pay legislation in America to close the gender wage gap."


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Belter (Discs Belter) fou una empresa discogràfica catalana fundada el 1954 a Barcelona. Era coneguda per l'edició d'artistes de pop, cançó espanyola i música lleugera com Manolo Escobar, Lola Flores, Víctor Manuel, Josep Guardiola, Salomé o Conchita Bautista i de cantants llatinoamericans com Antonio Machín o Carlos Gardel.

El nom de la companyia prové de les contraccions de Bel (Isabel) i Ter (Teresa), nom de les dones dels fundadors, Joaquín Alfonso Navas i Josep Ramon Batalla Altayó.

La millor facturació de Belter va superar els 1.300 milions de pessetes fins que a partir dels anys setanta va decréixer l'interès del públic pels intèrprets del gènere espanyol. Es va recuperar a principis dels anys vuitanta gràcies a èxits aïllats, com la contractació de Raimon, el grup infantil Parchís, la Orquestra Encanta da i "Marfil". No obstant això, l'arribada massiva de la música rock i la implantació gradual de les multinacionals del disc van arraconar Belter que es va orientar cap a l'edició de produccions marginals.

Belter formava part d'un grup d'empreses, juntament amb la fàbrica de discos Fabricsa (antiga Emi-Odeon) i la fàbrica de cassets Duplicsa, sent l'accionista majoritari Lluís Portabella Ràfols, amb una participació del 19%. L'any 1983 va ingressar 750 milions de pessetes i el 7 de novembre de 1984 va presentar suspensió de pagaments.

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Brembo is a partner in the first video game that shows who makes the best use of the brakes
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Brembo's experience in the premier class is at the base of MotoGP Championship Quest, the first mobile game where the player who is best on the brakes wins.
All of us can go fast in a straight line. What separates a professional rider from an enthusiast is the right choice of timing in braking and the use of the throttle. This is a skill that is perfected with experience, but that can be simulated with video games, too. All you have to do is download MotoGP Championship Quest, available on iTunes and in the coming weeks for Android as well, the game that puts you in the boots of your favourite MotoGP rider.
Developed by the American company, We Play Media, MotoGP Championship Quest takes advantage of Brembo's extensive experience in the premier class. Brembo made its début in the 500 class in 1978 with the team Gallina Suzukis and, consistently improving its systems, it has succeeded in winning more than 430 MotoGP 500 class races, 27 World Rider Championships and 28 World Manufacturer Championships. It is not by chance that this year every MotoGP rider has expressly requested the use of Brembo brakes.
MotoGP Championship Quest is the free game for mobile devices with a MotoGP license: it works on all mobile phones and tablets with Apple and Android operating systems. The game starts in the Rookie category, tackling one of the real World Championship tracks. Besides reproducing the tracks accurately down to the smallest details, the developers dedicate particular attention to the performance of the bikes in braking, using the data collected by Brembo for each individual turn.
For the first time, 100% of the MotoGP riders have Brembo brakes
With two types of calipers (light and heavy duty) and 4 disc solutions (320 mm and 340 mm, high and low strips), Brembo guarantees all of the MotoGP riders the highest levels of safety and performance on all of the circuits.
Once in the saddle, you won't need to worry about steering or increasing your lean angle. All you will need to do is brake and accelerate, using the specific buttons located respectively on the bottom left and bottom right sides of the screen.
The braking symbol bears the Brembo logo to emphasise the equation "MotoGP Braking = Brembo".
After all, it has been 23 years since the last time a bike without Brembo brakes has won a race in the 500-MotoGP class.
Described this way, the game seems simple, but playing it correctly is much more complex than one might think.
Along the circuit the points are indicated where braking or acceleration should begin. Getting the perfect timing right is not easy, because the system detects whether the player has pressed the button early or late to within thousandths of a second.
When the difference in thousandths is low, the play can begin (or continue) a combo that earns extra points. Using the points earned in the game or through sponsors, the player can improve the bike's performance in terms of braking, acceleration and handling.
A bit like what has happened recently with the MotoGP brakes that were clearly improved thanks to Brembo's continuous Research & Development investments. Once you have a nice stash of points, you can move up a category, purchasing a Team Bike class bike. Moving up further, you can become a Pro Rider, in other words, you can race in the boots of your favourite MotoGP rider.
In this case, the credits can also be spent to add a team manager, a crew chief or a personal trainer.
Once you arrive at this level, points are earned to move up in the overall standings of what is called the Fan World Championship.
At the end of each month, the rider leading in the standings wins a fantastic watch.
But the highlight is the final standings that takes into consideration all the results achieved by 31 December 2016. The players at the top of the standings will win VIP tickets to the races, watches, autographed posters and frequent flyer miles.
The most sought after prize, however, is a trophy made by Brembo with a caliper and part of the disc from a MotoGP bike, awarded to the player who is crowned Fan World Champion and bearing the world championship winner's name at the base. After all, braking is the primary part of MotoGP Championship Quest and it makes it different from all the other games on the market.
It's time to show us what you can do. If you want to aspire to the title of best braker in the world, get to work.
Let's go braking.