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A reduction in public funding for fertility treatment - an econometric analysis of access to treatment and savings to government
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1 Perinatal and Reproductive Epidemiology Research Unit, The University of New South Wales, Level 2, McNevin Dickson Building, Randwick Hospitals Campus, Sydney, 2031, Australia
2 National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, 5001, Australia
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BMC Health Services Research 2012, 12:142 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-12-142Published: 8 June 2012
Almost all assisted reproductive technology (ART) and intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatments performed in Australia are subsidized through the Australian Government's universal insurance scheme, Medicare. In 2010 restrictions on the amount Medicare paid in benefits for these treatments were introduced, increasing patient out-of-pocket payments for fresh and frozen embryo ART cycles and IUI. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the policy on access to treatment, savings in Medicare benefits and the number of ART conceived children not born.
Pooled quarterly cross-sectional Medicare data from 2007 and 2011 where used to construct a series of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models to evaluate the impact of the policy on access to treatment by women of different ages. Government savings in the 12 months after the policy was calculated as the difference between the predicted and observed Medicare benefits paid.
After controlling for underlying time trends and unobserved factors the policy change reduced the number of fresh embryo cycles by almost 8600 cycles over 12 months (a 16% reduction in cycles, p < 0.001). The policy effect was greatest on women aged 40 years and older (38% reduction in cycles, p < 0.001). Younger women engaged in relatively more anticipatory behaviour by bringing forward their fresh cycles to 2009. Frozen embryo cycles, which are approximately one quarter of the cost of a fresh cycle, were only marginally impacted by the policy. Utilisation of IUI cycles were not impacted by the policy. After adjusting for anticipatory behaviour, $76 million in Medicare benefits was saved in the 12 months after the policy change (0.47% of annual Medicare benefits). Between 1200 and 1500 ART conceived children were not born in 2010 as a consequence of the policy.
The introduction of the policy resulted in a significant reduction in fresh ART cycles in the first 15 months after its introduction. Further evaluation on the long term impact of the policy with regard access to treatment and on clinical practice, particularly the number of embryos transferred, is crucial to ensuring equitable access to fertility treatment and the health and welfare of ART children.


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November 21, 2008
European researchers say they've confirmed Albert Einstein's e=mc2, more than a century after the famous physicist first unveiled the hypothesis.
Laurent Lellouch of France's Center for Theoretical Physics led a team from France, Germany and Hungary in the research, which involved some of the world's strongest supercomputers, the German newspaper Deutsche Welle said Friday.
Einstein's e=mc2 formula shows that mass can be converted into energy and vice versa.
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RAEFORD — A Virginia company will reopen a Hoke County refinery to convert tobacco into ethanol, state officials said Monday, bringing 79 jobs and a $36 million investment to Hoke and surrounding counties.
Danville, Virginia-based Tyton BioEnergy Systems will restart the former Clean Burn Fuels biorefinery as part of its strategy to convert its regionally grown proprietary tobacco into ethanol, Gov. Pat McCrory and state Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced.
Tyton's partner, Tyton NC Biofuels LLC, purchased the facility and is planning to add the biofuels manufacturing jobs and restart North Carolina's only commercial-scale ethanol refinery, which has been idle for more than three years in the city of Raeford.
"Companies are establishing operations in North Carolina because our economic environment is strong and our work force is extremely capable," McCrory said in a statement. "Tyton will generate jobs in green manufacturing and provide new opportunities for farmers while investing millions of dollars in North Carolina's economy."
Tyton BioEnergy Systems has developed a special energy tobacco plant that is a dedicated non-food fuel crop. Over the next five years, Tyton will work to grow its energy tobacco and establish local rural processing facilities to convert tobacco into three products: sugar for ethanol, oil for biodiesel and a "green" byproduct called biochar, which is used as a soil amendment in the forestry and agriculture sectors.
Tyton energy tobacco will not compete with traditional tobacco, the governor's office said, but rather, it will offer farmers the opportunity to profitably grow a new energy crop in rotation with other row crops or on lands not ideal for other crops.
"Tyton is committed to delivering value to North Carolina farmers and building the green-fuel basket of the mid-Atlantic through our agriculture and biofuels manufacturing operations" said Peter Majeranowski, president of Tyton BioEnergy Systems. "There is a long and important history with tobacco in North Carolina, and we are excited to work with farmers and workers, especially veterans, across the state to create a new green-energy future for tobacco that will bring benefits to the region and world."
At first, Tyton will use corn as the feedstock in this local refinery and then transition to tobacco-sugars as farmers cultivate more acres of energy tobacco.
Salaries will vary by job function, but the average annual wage for the new jobs will be $43,671 plus benefits. The Hoke County average annual wage is $33,032.
The project was made possible in part by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $232,000. The One N.C. Fund provides financial assistance, through local governments, to attract business projects that will stimulate economic activity and create new jobs in the state. Companies receive no money up front and must meet job creation and investment performance standards to qualify for grant funds. These grants also require and are contingent upon local matches.
McCrory said the state's Southeast Regional Economic Development Partnership, a public-private partnership that markets the Southeast region nationally and globally, was an important resource to Tyton in its evaluation and selection of Hoke County and North Carolina.
"Our skilled work force and commitment to community economic development have created a strong business climate, and Tyton's announcement will bring needed jobs to our area," state Rep. Ken Goodman, D-Richmond, said in a release.
"This facility will provide an important economic boost to Hoke County and the surrounding area," added Rep. Garland Pierce, D-Hoke. "We welcome Tyton BioEnergy to North Carolina and wish them continued success."
McCrory said other project partners the N.C. Department of Commerce, N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, N.C. State University, N.C. Community Colleges, Sandhills Community College, NCWorks, Hoke County, Raeford-Hoke Economic Development Commission, Wake County Economic Development, N.C. Biotechnology Center and NC's Southeast Regional Economic Development Partnership.


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As of the census of 2000, there were 38,603 people, 15,582 households, and 10,315 families residing in the county. The population density was 54 people per square mile (21/km²). There were 16,251 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile (9/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 94.74% White, 0.56% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 1.47% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.18% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races. 4.26% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 35.9% were of German, 24.4% Norwegian and 7.0% Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.
There were 15,582 households out of which 29.70% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.70% were married couples living together, 8.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.80% were non-families. 29.10% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the county the population was spread out with 25.10% under the age of 18, 8.20% from 18 to 24, 25.70% from 25 to 44, 21.40% from 45 to 64, and 19.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 97.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.60 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $36,654, and the median income for a family was $45,154. Males had a median income of $31,743 versus $23,317 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,795. About 6.30% of families and 9.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.30% of those under age 18 and 5.60% of those age 65 or over.
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Yep just made another KDF character and yes you do indeed start in warriors hall and cannot leave until honour bound is complete. You cannot beam to ships, leave the room or anything. Even logging out while in the warriors hall puts you straight back in once you return, although admittedly I may have come under the 15 minute rule for map changes when testing that.
This does not however help those who made characters prior to season 4 as no indication was ever given that warrior hall access was going to be removed, in fact none of the folks on Tribble even mentioned it once.


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New Idea - Personal Account Wide Bank
Folks who like me have multiple player characters would appreciate this idea.
Why not have another bank beyond the existing personal bank and the fleet bank. It would function like the fleet bank (IE different tabs) but it would be only accessable to all the characters on a single account.
The number of tabs could equal the number of character slots on the account, and it should be able to hold any non bound item, as well as energy credits.
Folks are already mailing items to themselves, and selling stuff to themselves on the exchange to transfer credits, so this would not add any new functionality, just a ton of convenience.
Right now I have an entire bank filled with food for my tribble breeding hobby, another toon has the bank that holds tribbles, another holds gear I'm not using, etc.
If my idea were put into place, then all these things could go into their own tab in the same bank. It would make it a ton easier for my VA toon to buy stuff from my LT, or to manage data samples for crafting (samples in the account wide bank should be available for crafting as they are from the personal bank now), or to breed tribbles.


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MANILA, Philippines–Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio "Jun" Abaya has brushed off as "part of public service" recent allegations that several of his key officials are involved in widespread oil smuggling.
This comes amid reports that former Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Eduardo Oban Jr., who was recently appointed an Undersecretary at the Department of Transportation and Communications, had helped local oil firms smuggle billions of pesos worth of fuel into the country.
Oban is currently on leave from the DOTC, which started April 1 and will last six months.
"There was no talk of smuggling when he went on leave. There is nothing to investigate in DOTC," Abaya said in a text message when sought for comment.
Abaya likewise said there were no "differences in policy or management style" that would have prompted Oban to go on leave. Oban did not specify his reason for going on leave.
Abaya said Oban had called, asking where allegations that linked him to smuggling had come from. Abaya said his reply was: "I said I guess it is all part of public service."
Oban was named undersecretary last November to handle DOTC's day-to-day operations. He replaced Rafael Santos, who, prior to joining the DOTC, was also an undersecretary at the Department of National Defense.
A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, Oban also holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific. Oban was the third Chief of Staff to come from the Air Force since 1996. He also played a major role in the negotiation with Magdalo rebels involved in the Oakwood mutiny in 2003.
Oban was named AFP Chief of Staff in March 2011, but left in November of the same year after reaching the mandatory retirement age.
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These smuggled goods, he said, are likely bought from neighboring countries like Indonesia where fuel is subsidized by the government before being brought into the country through special economic zones.
Prior to joining the DOTC, Oban was head of the Clark Development Corp., which manages the landlocked Clark Freeport.
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Objective Coaching, teaching, writing, and managing at all levels of sport and education.
Education Education, M.Ed. 2006 National University 3.6 GPA
Global Studies, BS 2002 National University 3.7 GPA
Behavioral Science, AA 1995 Mira Costa College 4.0 GPA
Experience 1990 to Present Hamil's Universal Martial Arts Network (HUMAN)
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I am skilled in customer service, writing, and computers. I oversee the operations of a community based service in education and personal training. I am presently teaching The San Diego Gulls Hockey Club, as well as training private clients at Encinitas Boxing. I have taught hundreds of students in California and have extensive experience working with troubled teens.
2001 to 2006 Rancho Santa Fe School District
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I was responsible for the health and welfare of 850 students. I designed and implemented lessons and activities. I served on the Crisis Team. I taught physical education and coached numerous sports, including football, hockey, basketball, and track. I am skilled with challenged children.
1980 TO 1989 22ND District Agricultural Association Horse Master
I was accountable for the safety and comfort of over 500 horsemen and 1500 head of stock. I supervised accounts payable; including stall fees, waste management and security. I am proficient in driving heavy equipment.
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"Wow! Did you see what Jesus did? That miracle, that healing . . . it proves that He is God!" Is that all? Is that all we are supposed to understand from the miracles of Jesus recorded for us in the Gospels? That they are proof--demonstrations that He is divine? Or could there possibly be much more there than we typically notice?
When John reported Jesus' first miracle (in John 2), he wrote that what Jesus did "displayed His glory" and resulted in His followers coming to trust in Him. Apparently, it wasn't simply about Jesus' identity as "God come in the flesh."
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Wow! Kickboxing is a very energetic thing to do. I think it would be fun, but my lack of coordination (and spinal damage) limit me a little. I do cheer you for the Quit Smoking thing. My mother was a smoker when I was growing up, and it took several tries before she kicked the habit (for which we all cheered as my dad, sister and I all have asthma). I know it is a tough addiction to break.
If you lived closer to me I would probably hit you up for gardening help (my container garden is a little sad looking). :)
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Hey, sorry I didn't reply faster, I have been busy with finishing up co-op and the holidays and all. I did not get a chance to try yogo, don't know about doing it by myself, and I need to find someone to do it with if I am going to.
I do though start my new workout routine this week and food watching as well. I think it will go well this time.
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Considering it's live event, the photo's pretty good. Quite why anyone would publicly Facebook tag themselves on the picture is quite a different matter.
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Well it opens now it was just the top half that opened for me earlier.
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It opened fine for me in Win 7 Firefox and the detail is amazing. What was more surprising to me was the many hundreds of empty seats I was able to see going round the arena. It looked very full but certainly was not even allowing for some to be at the toilet.
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The photo is a composite of 425 photos taken over an hour, during the athletes parade. I think a good number of people may well have left during the tedium of this part of the event.
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Why are all the spectatators near that big bell wearing ear-muffs? (bottom RH corner)...great photo.
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From cooking to IT, a wide range at social science fair
Students and teachers carrying multi-coloured craft paper, planks of wood and tools, food ingredients and kerosene stoves… The campus of the Government Higher Secondary School for Girls, Cotton Hill, the venue of the Thiruvananthapuram revenue district school social science fair, was bustling with activity from Tuesday morning.
There was a staggering range of categories in which students could compete. It seemed every single art and trade was being dabbled on by students of lower and upper primary, high school and higher secondary sections.
The fair was inaugurated on Tuesday, with work experience and information technology-related events in the spotlight.
"For the broad subject of work experience alone, we have around 35 events, including moulding plaster of paris and clay, horticulture, beading, making volleyball nets, and umbrellas," said an organiser.
Within hours, the main auditorium, corridors and classrooms of the institution turned into an exhibition centre of expertly made products by schoolchildren. Archana, 10, from Thonnackal, sat leaning against a pillar in the auditorium, pleased with her two wooden creations. "I was the only girl at the sub-district stage," she claims proudly. She learnt to make benches from her father who is a carpenter. Sawing and chopping bits of wood is no trouble for her little hands.
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Away from the din in the auditorium is the quieter IT labs, where digital painting, IT project, Malayalam typing, web designing and multimedia presentations were being organised by the IT@School. "Whatever topic or challenge we throw at them, they effortlessly produce professional results," said District Coordinator K.K. Sajeev, indicating a 'Kerala Tourism' website created by a high school student.
A few teachers and students were, however, displeased with the way the fair was organised. Sree Sarada Devi Sisuvihar UPS, near the Cotton Hill school, was the venue of a few events. "For the culinary programme held at the school, students are allotted three hours to make a buffet from local produce. Some were given rickety benches and had to stoop throughout," said a teacher of a city school. The mathematics, social science and science events and the valedictory function will be held on Wednesday. Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar will distribute the prizes.
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Over time the historical and traditional cultures originally recorded by the likes of Bachofen and Morgan slowly succumbed to the homogenization imposed by colonialism. Although a multiplicity of marriage practices once existed, conquering nations typically forced local cultures to conform to colonial belief and administrative systems. Whether Egyptian, Vijayanagaran, Roman, Ottoman, Mongol, Chinese, European, or other, empires have long fostered (or, in some cases, imposed) the widespread adoption of a relatively small number of religious and legal systems. By the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the perspectives of one or more of the world religions—Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity—and their associated civil practices were often invoked during national discussions of same-sex marriage.
Perhaps because systems of religion and systems of civil authority often reflect and support each other, the countries that had reached consensus on the issue by the early 2000s tended to have a single dominant religious affiliation across the population; many such places had a single, state-sponsored religion. This was the case in both Iran, where a strong Muslim theocracy had criminalized same-sex intimacy, and Denmark, where the findings of a conference of Evangelical Lutheran bishops (representing the state religion) had helped smooth the way for the first national recognition of same-sex relationships through registered partnerships. In other cases, the cultural homogeneity supported by the dominant religion did not result in the application of doctrine to the civic realm but may nonetheless have fostered a smoother series of discussions among the citizenry: Belgium and Spain had legalized same-sex marriage, for instance, despite official opposition from their predominant religious institution, the Roman Catholic Church.
The existence of religious pluralities within a country seems to have had a less determinate effect on the outcome of same-sex marriage debates. In some such countries, including the United States, consensus on this issue was difficult to reach. On the other hand, the Netherlands—the first country to grant equal marriage rights to same-sex couples (2001)—was religiously diverse, as was Canada, which did so in 2005.
Most of the world religions have at some points in their histories opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the following stated reasons: homosexual acts violate natural law or divine intentions and are therefore immoral; passages in sacred texts condemn homosexual acts; and religious tradition recognizes only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid. In the early 21st century, however, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism all spoke with more than one voice on this issue. Orthodox Judaism opposed same-sex marriage, while the Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative traditions allowed for it. Most Christian denominations opposed it, while the United Church of Christ, the United Church of Canada, and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) took a more favourable stand or allowed individual churches autonomy in the matter. The Unitarian Universalist churches and the gay-oriented Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches fully accepted same-sex marriage. Hinduism, without a sole leader or hierarchy, allowed some Hindus to accept the practice while others were virulently opposed. The three major schools of Buddhism—Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana—stressed the attainment of enlightenment as a basic theme; most Buddhist literature therefore viewed all marriage as a choice between the two individuals involved.
Sexuality is but one of many areas where religious and civic authority interact; definitions of the purpose of marriage is another. In one view, the purpose of marriage is to ensure successful procreation and child rearing. In another, marriage provides a—and perhaps "the"—fundamental building block of stable communities, with procreation as an incidental by-product. A third perspective holds that marriage is an instrument of societal domination and so is not desirable. A fourth is that relationships between consenting adults should not be regulated by the government. Although most religions subscribe to just one of these beliefs, it is not uncommon for two or more viewpoints to coexist within a given society.
Proponents of the first view believe that the primary goal of marriage is to provide a relatively uniform social institution through which to produce and raise children. In their view, because male and female are both necessary for procreation, the privileges of marriage should be available only to opposite-sex couples. In other words, partnerships involving sexual intimacy should have at least a notional potential for procreation. From this perspective, the movement to legally recognize same-sex marriage is a misguided attempt to deny the social, moral, and biological distinctions that foster the continued existence of society and so should be discouraged.
Because this view considers biological reproduction a sort of social obligation, its advocates tended to frame individuals' legal and moral commitment to one another as a matter of genetic relatedness. In cases of inheritance or custody, for instance, they generally defined the parents' legal duties to their biological children differently than those to their stepchildren. Among groups who feel strongly that same-sex marriage is problematic, there is also a tendency for the legal relationships of spouses, parents, and children to converge. Typically, these societies provide for the automatic inheritance of property between spouses, and between parents and children, and allow these close kin to co-own property without joint ownership contracts. In addition, such societies often allow close kin a variety of automatic privileges such as sponsoring immigration visas or making medical decisions for one another; for those with whom one shares no close kin relationship, these privileges typically require legal interventions. Such legal circumventions are usually more difficult for, and in some cases even prohibited to, same-sex couples.
In contrast to the procreative model of marriage, advocates of the legalization of same-sex marriage generally believed that committed partnerships involving sexual intimacy are valuable because they draw people together to a singular degree and in singular ways. In this view, such relationships are intrinsically worthy while also quite distinct from (though not incompatible with) activities associated with the bearing or raising of children. Sexual partnerships are one of a number of factors that bond adults together into stable household units. These households, in turn, form the foundation of a productive society—a society in which, albeit incidentally, children, elders, and others who may be relatively powerless are likely to be protected.
From this perspective, the devaluation of same-sex intimacy is immoral because it constitutes arbitrary and irrational discrimination, thereby damaging the community. Most same-sex marriage advocates further held that international human rights legislation provided a universal franchise to equal treatment under the law. Thus, prohibiting a specific group from the full rights of marriage was illegally discriminatory. For advocates of the community-benefit perspective, all the legal perquisites associated with heterosexual marriage should be available to any committed couple.
In contrast to these positions, self-identified "queer" theorists and activists sought to deconstruct the paired oppositional categories common in discussions of biology, gender, and sexuality (e.g., male-female, man-woman, gay-straight) and to replace these with categories or continua that they believed better reflect the actual practices of humanity. Queer advocates contended that marriage is an institution of "hetero-normality" that forces individuals into ill-fitting cultural categories and demonizes those who refuse to accept those categories. For these reasons, they maintained that consensual intimacy between adults should not be regulated and that marriage should be disestablished as a cultural institution.
A fourth view, libertarianism, had different premises from queer theory but somewhat similar ramifications; it proposed that government powers should be strictly limited, generally to the tasks of maintaining civil order, infrastructure, and defense. For libertarians, marriage legislation of any sort—either the legalization or the prohibition of same-sex marriage—fell outside of the role of government and was unacceptable. As a result, many libertarians believed that marriage should be "privatized" (i.e., removed from government regulation) and that citizens should be able to form partnerships of their choosing.


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